Because I'm like that

[jhetley]

Okay, small-town politics, one of the items on our ballot was a referendum on a left-turn ban at a certain street.  A couple of the residents had a hobby, too much time on their hands, and kept complaining to the city council about the amount of traffic cutting through their neighborhood on the way to the mall.  Finally got the traffic engineers to do a study and turn the State Street end into "right turn only" to eliminate some of the traffic.

Thereby shoving those cars onto other streets in the neighborhood.  Including ours, much narrower and with on-street parking.  Hell, our personal front steps encroach on the street right-of-way.

So the referendum reversed this change, and the city crews, the next day, took down the No Left Turn signs and all the other impediments to traffic.

Just drove over to the contractor to drop off those revised condo plans, and wanted to warm up the car a bit more before parking it.  So I drove up State Street and made a left turn on to Howard and added another car to their traffic count for the day.  Because that's the kind of person I am.  Petty and vindictive and small-minded.

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

We had someone in the neighborhood who wanted to put "road humps" (effectively, speed-bumps on public roads) on our street. When his first two attempts to muster neighborhood support via the association newsletter failed, he had the nerve to go door-to-door about it. I slammed the door in his face, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one! Fortunately, there's a testing process that has to be done before anything like that could be installed, and our street is sure to fail.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Speed bumps would get cleared off by the first snowplow pass of winter. The aforementioned civic hobbyists also got a version of same, with a pedestrian crosswalk raised above a more-gentle slope, which I sneer at because we get far worse frost-heaves every spring and fall.

I assume snowplows are not an issue on your street.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

It is to laugh. Houston's climate is semi-tropical; it can get cold, but actual snow happens very rarely, and is usually very light and gone within a day or so. On the occasions when it's actually sticking to the streets, they'll close off the freeway flyovers* to avoid launching vehicles off the edges, but that's about it.

* This would normally cause HUGE traffic jams, but people here tend to stay at home when it's snowing unless they have to be somewhere, so it kind of balances out.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I remember the gibbering panic when snow or an ice storm hit Atlanta. And we, who moved there from Chicago, would look out and say, "Not enough for sledding. Drat!"