Gov. Greg Abbott is calling on the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to enforce the removal of “any and all political ideologies” from Texas streets, warning that cities who do not comply will “face consequences.” Non-standard surface markings, signage and signals that “do not directly support traffic control or safety” are prohibited, according to a Wednesday news release from Abbott’s office.

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  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    There are codes and standards for traffic signs and markings. You are implying that he made something up to fit his narrative, which he did not.

    Side note, this is really starting to wean me off of Lemmy, and was the reason I left reddit. People need to stop and think for a minute before just blindly arguing. Go outside, get some sunlight, watch some clouds move across the sky, touch some grass, and calm the fuck down everyone.

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      2 months ago

      Cool, no one’s suggesting we get rid of codes and standards for traffic signs and markers. I guess that’s why I said it was a straw man. If you’re not too busy touching grass, you can respond to Baron Von J’s actual argument which is that nobody is mistaking a rainbow colored crosswalk for anything other than a crosswalk.

      If you don’t like arguing online maybe try not jumping into the middle of one throwing expletives around?

      • artyom@piefed.social
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        no one’s suggesting we get rid of codes and standards for traffic signs and markers

        That’s literally what’s being argued. There are standards for traffic signs and markers, and the gov is just demanding to actually adhere to them. Though his motivation is nefarious, the logic is still sound.

        If you want to argue against that, you are arguing for the dissolution of said standards because “they’ll figure it out”.

        This is not complicated.

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          If anything, the argument is that we’d like to add to traffic signs and markers by making them more visible.

          Non-standard surface markings, signage and signals that “do not directly support traffic control or safety” are prohibited, according to a Wednesday news release from Abbott’s office.

          Hmmm that’s really weird because according to this study,

          As indicated in the results of both the historical crash analysis and observational behavior assessment, asphalt art had a strong positive correlation with improved safety benefits across aggregated and most individual study sites. Road user behavior clearly improved across the observed study sites in the after analysis periods.

          So let’s see some data from you on how removing the rainbows from crosswalks will “support traffic control or safety”.