If any of you recall, I posted that I was promoting a project in my city, as a councilman, for new street signs citywide. Those signs are being installed as we speak.
I have gotten nothing but positive feedback from the residents. They absolutely love the new signs. The only complaint thus far is that we are now excluding connector streets on the primary signs. What I mean is that we used to list the backstreets on the main signs but for a number of reasons are no longer doing that.
There is a pic attached below.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
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nice , but mapquest doesn't know where VII HILLS is
just my 2¢
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That would be "Seven Hills", for the Roman Numeral Impaired.BTW, That is the city logo. The city was named for the seven hills of Rome back in 1926 I believe.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Beautiful, Pete. I noticed the flag holder, too. That will really look fine on the Fourth of July, etc. Wish we had that sort of pride here in my town.
Greg
I missed that flag holder ! what a stupid idea.
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The flag holder is really for the citizens of VII Hills to hang Pete in effigy when they see the bill for the signs
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that makes sense, and he forgot to say they had to buy a bucket truck to get the flags up there.
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I knew the name, I was being contrary, it's my new persona around here.
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gotcha
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
purty!!!!!!
Along that same line, didja notice they sunk these posts in ceement? I thought we had all voted that was bad?
isn't it apparent the mods changed our vote ?.
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I have Respighis " Pines Of Rome " on disc
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. but listening to it sucksso the important streets by you are Aventine, Caelian, Palatine .........?.
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Pete, I am curious about the street names...
and I will say the signs are quite nice.
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what do you mean about the street names?
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
are there streets named for the Seven Hills in Rome.
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are there streets named for the Seven Hills in Rome
I'm betting not.
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"are there streets named for the Seven Hills in Rome"Maybe they couldn't, since Palatine was already taken by a suburb of Chicago and most of the rest of them would be un-pronounceable for most folks.BruceT
I alwys got Palatine confused with Palos Park, hey maybe pete's out driving around looking at the new street signs in the dark.
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can you post the pics of the prototypes ?.
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Looks great Pete! Imagine, a street sign that even us old guys could read from the comfort of the drivers seat. Nice touch and better than the standard signs in my town.
Plus the lettering is reflective, per ODOT standards... so they are VERY visible from the road. This is something that has gotten much praise from residents.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Pete,
The lettering on these looks much better than the prototypes you originally posted. They look very nice.
Looks like a waste of taxpayer money, to me <G>
"Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
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Looks very nice Pete.
How about a resize. They do look good.
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
Edited 7/30/2009 10:23 pm by ruffmike
Pete,
I just realized that you can really only use those new signs to indicate one of the streets at an intersection. Trying to use the new signs for both means one becomes virtually unreadable as it is hidden behind the other.
Which streets get the the new signs , the more heavily traveled ones or the lighter traveled ones?
They look nice though, and I bet they will make great snow ball targets for the kids all winter.
Edited 7/30/2009 10:31 pm by dovetail97128
Look again, the other street is listed on a long slender placard perpendicular to the large placard.The primary streets get the slender sign so that people traveling those primary roads can readily see the names of the streets they are seeking on the larger placards.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
""Look again, the other street is listed on a long slender placard perpendicular to the large placard."' Yep , just what I said.. you can't use the new signs for both streets at an intersection.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
there are two new signs on that new post.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Pete,
I think the signs look nice and are an improvement,can you tell us the cost of replacing the old ones. Vince Carbone
Riverside Builders
Franklin,NY
The cost was 385k for the entire city... money comes from a special fund that is only to be used for limited things, signs being one of them. The money for that fund comes from the state of Ohio from motor vehicle registrations and such.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Just out of curiousity, what are the other thing?
Stop signs and what not?
They look nice but not my style...
Some signs include a stop sign. Some include a flag holder.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
Too flashy for me...
Just sayin'
I guess I'd be OK with the E. Pleasant Valley Rd sign, but frankly, I'd be embarrassed to live on a street with a sign as ostentatious as the South Cricket Lane, VII Hills one.
In my day, we didn't need s*** like that; we didn't suffer from that desperate drive to achieve hollow importance.
Myself, I'm happy to live on 8th Street, where I've reluctantly made peace with our new, jumbo 7"x24" signs. PUH-LENTY big, thank you!
These days, the 5'x9' signs reading "Hickory Ridge Estates" just tell us what species of tree was clearcut to make room for the cookie-cutter McMansions with their well-nuked lawns, and "No Clotheslines, No Chickens" rules.
We're losing -- actually, we've already lost -- the low-key neighborhoods that we used to play ball in, and have traded almost every single one of them in for overblown, rubber-stamped, walled, Stepford confines where pompous conformity rules Uber Alles.
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'Scuse my rant, but I have little patience for this kind of self-important kitsch, and the bland destruction that it has brought to our once-vibrant culture.
AitchKay
Somebody sounds a little resentful. What do you have against great little cities? Safe, clean and pleasant.
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I refuse to accept that there are limitations to what we can accomplish. Pete Draganic
Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. Matt Garcia
I live in a great little city -- one with history and character.
Wouldn't have it any other way; that's why I posted in defense of that dieing-out breed.AitchKay
Just out of curiosity, I looked up the street sign location on Google Street view. You can see the location here.
Here's the street sign that was replaced. I think it was an improvement.View Image
Here's a shot of South Cricket Lane. Doesn't seem to ostentatious to me.View Image
Just my opinion, though.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
Good idea looking up the street view.Keep in mind that I don't have any taste but based on the google street view I think the old sign matched the neighborhood better. The new ones seem like they are going to stand out like a new pair of white tennis shoes.Karl
Nope, that neighborhood isn’t ostentatious at all. In fact, it’s a fairly modest, quite ordinary neighborhood.That’s nothing to be ashamed of, and all the more reason not to tart it up with a bunch of pretentious signs.I agree with Karl that, ”the old sign matched the neighborhood better.”AitchKay
They look great Pete.
I'm sure you won't please everyone, as evidenced by the coments in here already. I'd be happy if Austin would have taken your old signs and renamed all their streets and put the old rusty ones up.
Mericans like everything bigger - trucks, breasts, guns, now signs