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The 20 dollar fix: 2 bollards near intersections to stop people from parking where they force bikes to swerved in front of distracted drivers and block pedestrians from the view of drivers.
You mean some paint on the ground isn't enough to protect a human from a 2 ton hunk of metal on wheels driven by an idiot that's not paying attention?
They used plastic bollards that can't stop them either, but the psychological effect stopped them from parking there.
That, and the damage the bollards will do to the car of whatever asshole that may run over them
$20.00? For government work? I'd like to see some receipts
Presumably thats where the journalist got the 20 dollar per intersection number.
$20 for the bollards, then add $500 an hour for the one union employee and $1,000 per hour for the one union supervisor to watch the one union employee.
Figure this was a 30 minute job that they charged 8 hours for too.
Damn, I need to change unions, sounds like i could be making exponentially more. Where can I learn more about the $500/hr union?
and just in the back: a car parked on the cycling lane