It seems as if the tribal elders want to spend the one million dollars on new signs because,
Charlottesville is a hard place to direct people, it’s a hard city to learn your way around for one thing.
How fucking dumb are the locals?
Do they not have the ability to learn how to read a map? Are they boggled by the perfect city roads that the tribal elders spend hours and hours debating at village meetings? Just because every road changes names an average of once every 1.5 blocks shouldn’t mean anything. Things like that are set up because rich white people owned certain things back in TJ’s day, including roads.
Remember how much the village wanted to spend on 4th Street crossing the mall? They claimed that it would cost almost one million to let cars run across the mall. Since that day the cars have been permanently running along the street, and NOT ONE FUCKING PENNY got spent on that road. Why was that going to cost 1M? Why the hell should a sign cost 1M?
Let’s think about this reasonably. If the elders say we will spend 1M what do you think we’ll really pay? Every single project (such as trying to put bricks on a 1/2 block area) have run over budget and over time. Can you picture 2.8 million bucks getting spent on signs in the next 5 years?
Pay me one million. I’ll put up some signs for you.
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Not that it should cost $1M, but I’ve seen way too many lost tourists trying to drive on the mall. Yes, ON the mall. All it takes is for some of the end barriers on a side street to be out of place and hello tourist. Then there are the “drive a block, stop abruptly, realize it isn’t a cross-street and repeat ad nauseum” people on Water and Market street. I’m not sure that signage would solve either problem (probably not, but I’m a ridiculous optimist). Certainly, with $1M, you could stand bodies at every cross street and give personal directions! Where, indeed, is the money going?