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Re: Politically correct traffic signs

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Politically correct traffic signs
From: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:27:28 -0600
> Insisting that it was not out of political correctness, Steve Kent, the
> Council's highway engineer, said, "On several occasions last year, we
> found Polish-speaking drivers were failing to understand diversion signs

Isn't that why we create diversions in the first place? Putting up signs in
Polish would defeat the purpose! Or maybe we should put up diversion
signs with Rosetta stones in a couple dozen different languages, varying
the order each time...
david Lieb 




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