Sloppy floppy signage

It's one thing to have cheesy plastic signs and bollards all over town; it's another thing to not maintain them.  I particularly dislike these floppy signs that sit in the middle of the street and have a little red Yield sign on them that drivers constantly confuse with an actual stop sign.  They stop for no reason even with no pedestrian around and I watch to see if they get rear-ended.  Here's one on Howard Ave. that broke several months ago and just sits tilted and missing one side.  It's a sad little sight.  At least there is a nice gingko or two on the block to distract tree huggers.

Comments

[Joe]

I saw another near miss of a rear-end collision yesterday at this very spot. Someone just stopped in front of the floppy sign for no reason and a nice, new Porsche got thiiiiiss close.

[Peter Garrison]

If that’s the floppy sloppy sign on Howard then when a person parks too close to that sign to avoid the car, you have to go around the sign in the other lane. Dumb place to put a sign. Dumb place to park a car.

[Joe]

Pretty funny/sad. I took a cab to the airport yesterday. The driver was a long-time Burlingame area driver--like 25+ years. We went down Oak Grove and he stops full at that stupid floppy sign. No pedestrian anywhere in sight. They are terribly designed.

[Joe]

Sorry about the photo not showing up in the original post. TypePad still hasn't fixed the intermittent photo issues.

The city did get around to replacing both beat-up floppy signs though! They'll probably last a couple of months again.

[Cassandra]

Skyline at Hillside floppy finally disappeared. Useless, annoying and dangerous.

[hillsider]

What size wrench did you use?

[Not me]

85 mph