Sign Language (from the hearing impaired)
ByThe city of DuPont continues implementing their best known method. Now the sign brigade plans to leave their mark elsewhere throughout town.
PARKING RESTRICTIONS BEING IMPLEMENTED
Beginning the week of December 14th, Public Works crews will be installing “No Parking” signage along portions of McDonald Avenue, Forrest Street, Tolmie Street, Braget Street, Cox Street, Arnold Street, Meyer Street, Rowan Court, and along the curve joining Hudson/Griggs Streets.
The parking restrictions are necessary to ensure that emergency vehicle access is maintained in these areas, and will result in street parking being allowed on one side of the street only.
Once the signage is in place, our Police will begin implementing enforcement of the restrictions. Warnings may be issued initially for vehicles parked in restricted areas to help inform residents of the restrictions. Parking violations will be enforced after two (2) weeks from sign placement.
We appreciate your cooperation as we work to address street access concerns within the community.
I love the last line where the city insincerely states that they appreciate their citizens’ cooperation. Forget that those who wrote or spoke before council for over a year met inaction; and forget that when citizens asked the city just to re-paint the curbs yellow they were presented this better solution with little feedback.
Evidently, sinking a post is easy; the lines on Center Drive prove the city struggles with the concept of painting the pavement.
The funny thing is that the only person in DuPont who seems to want a parking restriction sign is DuPont Cleaners and, you guessed it, they don’t get one.
The whole thing brings me back to 1983 and the MTV classic video “Institutionalized” by Venice, California Skate Punk/Trash Core band Suicidal Tendencies. Yellow curbs, just one Pepsi. What difference does it make? Both leave you feeling frustrated and with a sense of who is in charge.
I say “classic” because the song also appeared on the soundtrack to the film Repo Man, which introduced the “plate of shrimp” theory of Synchronicity to the world. Also, the parents are played by the late David Lynch mainstay, Jack Nance (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks); and Mary Woronov, a member of Andy Warhol’s factory superstars and Velvet Underground stage dancer, as well as an actress with numerous credits. I never really cared for the song back then, but I did understand it. Later, the lament of “All I wanted was a Pepsi” came to be a popular refrain to not getting what you really wanted.
The key to the signs will be enforcement. We’ve heard that one before!
If the sign solution implemented on McDonald Ave is used as the example for these other streets then I would not concern myself with enforcement (if you park next to one you do not see a sign, just a wood post). The residents only wanted the curbs repainted after they fell into disrepair, now we have a solution that seems to want to showcase how clever our public works director is. I am sure it is getting done now so that the city can check a box for accomplishments in 2009.
One year to address this citizen concern.
http://realdupont.com/curbing-our-enthusiasm/
The City put the arrowed signs on McDonald around the painted curbs because they were already purchased by the city.
That is why city hall was not listening to what the citizen’s wanted.
It never matters what citizen’s want. We only live here.
That about sums it up.
What you requested was replaced by something totally different that costs a lot, but it stinks.
DuPont, where cheap imitation results are what you get, because of the cardboard cutout council who say yes and good job to everything they review.
Stop and take a photo if and when you ever see a dupont cop writing a parking ticket on a residential street here.
It will be as rare as a big foot sighting.
How many tickets were issued on McDonald before the signs? I’ve heard 0
Don’t you listen to Penny Coffey? We don’t have the money…for ANYTHING! It costs the city more to issue a ticket than to ignore a problem.