You know that parking ticket you say you didn’t deserve because the street sweeping sign was faded? Well, the days of being able to claim “I didn’t see it” or “I couldn’t read it” are coming to an end.
Denver Public Works is in the process of replacing all faded signs, including no parking and street sweeping signs, in addition to putting up 60,000 new street name signs.
“The old signs are bad because you can’t get around the city the way you want to,” said Abram Sloss, senior financial management Analyst for Traffic Engineering Services, a division of Denver Public Works. “When you have new signs that are up to standard, you know what the address exactly is, you know where the restrictions are so you park in the appropriate places, you can make good decisions as a driver.”
Each of the city and county’s 80 neighborhoods will get an upgrade: all new street signs by 2010 and all fades signs will be replaced by 2013.
“This is the old material, it was painted on the aluminum,” Sloss said. “Now we’re using vinyl. It has a high prismatic background to it. It’s much more reflective at night.”
All told, it’s $2 million of taxpayer dollars at work.
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