Paying Federal Bureaucrats to do What?
Today’s NY Post has a story posted that reports that New York taxpayers will spend “$27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps” because “the Federal Highway Administration contends in its updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, citing improved readability.” According to the newspaper:
"At $110 per sign, it will also cost the state $27.6 million, city officials said.
"We have already started replacing the signs in The Bronx," city Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan told The Post. 'We will have 11,000 done by the end of this fiscal year, and the rest finished by 2018.
[ . . . ]
“Studies have shown that it is harder to read all-caps signs, and those extra milliseconds spent staring away from the road have been shown to increase the likelihood of accidents, particularly among older drivers, federal documents say.
“The new regulations also require a change in font from the standard highway typeface to Clearview, which was specially developed for this purpose.
"As a result, even numbered street signs will have to be replaced."
And federal employees deserve to earn 50% or more than private sector employees? for decisions like this? As Gateway Pundit (with H/T) puts it, “what this really shows is the outrageous overstepping of power that the federal government wallows in these days.” Don't you just look forward to the implementation of ObamaCare?