At work, there's a conference room that looks out over a section of Winchester Blvd. Winchester is major road with a ramp to the local freeway and has a set of rail tracks running next to it for a bit. Those tracks were damaged last year when a train derailed, and they're finally going in to fix them properly, so that section of Winchester to the south of us is closed. There are several large "ROAD CLOSED" signs located just after the ramp onto the freeway, along with three or for big, blinky, CALTRANS traffic info signs further up Winchester, announcing the fact that said road is closed.
i note all of this because this afternoon, whilst waiting for a meeting to start i watched eight cars jockey drive through a narrow gap between the multiple ROAD CLOSED signs in order to drive across the overpass, and then do a U turn once they discover that several sets of jersey wall barriers really do mean that the road is not open. i'll even add that a couple of the drivers had to stop in front of one of the ROAD CLOSED signs in order to let other fellow soon-to-be-turning-their-collective-asses-around drivers to enter.
Part of me really wanted to go down to the intersection when they returned so i can point at them and laugh.
Doubly so when another batch of 10 cars decided that multiple ROAD CLOSED signs apparently didn't mean them.
Oh, and that i later learned that one of the signs was pushed out of the way by a driver of an expensive automobile who was quite positive the road was indeed open, regardless of any statement to the contrary.
Sigh. This is why i want to pass legislation allowing for remotely activated head slapping devices installed into vehicles.
