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The District Department of Transporation's Twitter feed (@DDOTDC) just sent out this image of a pretty hilarious sign that's posted somewhere in the city. Anybody recognize where it is, and/or have any guesses as to what on earth it means? We're pestering DDOT to find out, and they're playing the whole thing awfully coy, but we'll hopefully get back to you with the answer soon. All we can venture right now is that if a sign stating "research program demonstration project on signage" is causing a lot of people to notice the sign, then said project is surely a wild success.
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Yeah I saw that sign, with a bunch of cars piled up underneath from drivers who were trying to read the sign while driving and taking on their cellphones.
It's at New Hampshire and U. My boyfriend spotted it last year and thought it was so ridiculous he made us stop and take a picture.
tophersez is right. I live there. It's been up for a couple of years, and now I can't recall if there were even sign changes that were made in conjunction with its posting. Pretty sure the signs on our block are like all the others: many and confusing.
And the sign said: long-haired freaky people need not apply.
If God were here, He'd tell it to your face: Liz, get back in the pickup truck.
And the sign said: Nevermind WMATA, this is where your tax dollars go.
wasn't there something like this in georgetown too... which is why they have different signs than the rest of the city (i think... i avoid georgetown)
It's like staring at an accident. I can't stop looking at it with a perplexed look on my face. I'm trying to close my internet explorer by finger keeps missing the mouse button.
put the bong down...
maybe it's from this: http://ddot.dc.gov/ddot/lib/ddot/information/research/pdfs/newsletters/researchhighlights_2005-2006.pdf
"Beginning in May 2004, DDOT conducted a sign consolidation pilot project to test combining street cleaning signage with residential parking signage as a step towards reducing visual clutter on our streets. Several signs, both prohibitive (red) and permissive (green), were consolidated into one black and white sign. During the pilot project, two blocks of New Hampshire Avenue (1900 and 2000 blocks) were signed temporarily as "DDOT Research Program Demonstration Project" areas."
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Reminds me of the sign I around the corner from the Rockville Target last month, right off Rockville Pike:
THIS ROAD TO BE RESURFACED IN A FEW WEEKS. PLEASE CALL XXX-XXXX FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Uhhh...define "a few weeks". Not only is that quite vague, but how the hell is the reader supposed to know when the sign was put up?
Not sure I've ever seen such informal language on an official road sign before.
SO...HEADS UP...WE'RE GONNA GET THIS ROAD ALL SMOOTHED OUT FOR YOU PRETTY SOON...DONT SWEAT IT, YO
Terry Gilliam's Brazil has nothing on that bureaucratic cluster-f implied by the existence of that sign.
That sign appears immediately above another sign which tries to simplify the parking rules (zones, street cleaning) into a single sign instead of two. I'm not sure it actually is clearer, though. Here are some pictures of the other signs.
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This sign (U and New Hampshire) have been up for years, like 6 at least. In the editing biz, this is called a noun string.
"I saw the sign, that opened up my eyes, I saw the sign! Life is demanding without understanding. I saw the sign!"
They're just practicing for the new "Left Lane reserved for Alien Overlord vehicles" signage.
There was a wonderfully welcoming sign on the VA side of the Key Bridge this morning...it was an electronic sign flashing first "Over The Limit" followed by "Under Arrest". Um, you get arrested in DC now for going over the speed limit? Zealous much?
This is a link that to a street view that points directly at the sign. I've taken pictures of it before because I found the verbiage utterly baffling.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=16th+St+NW+%26+U+St+NW,+Washington,+District+of+Columbia,+20009&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.307813,79.013672&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FX_TUQIdJIRo-w&split=0&ll=38.916682,-77.036819&spn=0.010435,0.01929&z=16&layer=c&cbll=38.916763,-77.03674&panoid=B1-mwGhUPkdWbjUJeZMfDQ&cbp=12,262.46,,0,2.83