After reporting last week on a slew of misaligned walk signs plaguing the city, we couldn’t stop spotting them everywhere. At Florida Ave. and R St., NW, and Pennsylvania Ave. and 8th St., SE, all eight pedestrian signals were pointing away from oncoming foot traffic — surely a dangerous state of affairs.

While we originally speculated strong winds were responsible, several readers tipped us off on the most likely culprits: construction and delivery trucks. After seeing one truck make a sharp turn onto under-construction P St. and almost rip off a walk sign off its post, it was hard not to long for some sort of vehicle-chomping behemoth to exact vengeance.

This overwhelming ire was balanced, though, by the relatively rapid response by the D.C. Despite the city’s daily report of service requests shows only about 10% of cases closed on time, all 11 of twisted walk signs we called into the Mayor’s Call Center, (202) 727-1000, were fixed within 48 hours. Washingtonians may spend plenty of time griping about city services, but two days for almost a dozen intersections isn’t half bad. You can also submit requests online, though we’ve had mixed results in actually tracking cases.

Obviously, Department of Transportation officials can’t continuously roam city streets looking for pedestrian hazards, so it’s also up to neighbors to keep an eye on these easily moved signals.

Photo by Flickr user Rich Renomeron.