Given the original sign covered 7-9.30am seems like it's to prevent people cutting across traffic during peak commuting time either to prevent accidents or improve the flow of traffic.

It's to try and prevent people from cutting through a neighborhood during rush hour. Common in more gridded cities.

Likely a school zone. Most of these signs are because there are children crossing the street and they don't want them to get hit by cars.

If you bring it up, then it could end up in some bureaucratic limbo where nothing ever gets done. And then afterwards if you go to change it yourself they’ll figure it was you. So maybe easier just to change it yourself in the first place?

School kids probably

There's a sign by my house, on a road I need to turn right on at about 420 every day, that says no right-on-red turns between 730am to 430pm on school days.

It's frustrating, because it doesn't seem like it's actually protecting children for 9 hours a day

His sign wasn't useless, the new one was about 20% less useless.

Possibility: They know it’s in the wrong spot. They don’t know why. So they figure someone screwed up, they don’t know who, but they don’t want it to be them or their department. So nobody says anything, and the stop remains unchanged.

Just because a traffic engineer has qualifications doesn't necessarily guarantee they're not an asshole who is wrong and also sucks.

Or, hear me out, maybe the sign was just wrong. If they haven't catch up in almost a year that was probably the case.

Did you just invent a school zone to make an argument? What would the hypothetical civil engineers have to say after running countless hours of simulations on imagined children?

Thank you, it was the first thing I thought and was about to go search for it

Yeah, it's just life advice. No memes here

In all fairness, he's discussing stuff he'd done 13 years prior.

"Oh shit, InfiniteRespect4757 just confessed to a crim on the Internet from years ago. We finally got em boys!"

20 years ago, our town had a war over an intersection.

Someone decided to upgrade a 3 way intersection, for a a dirt road going into the woods off a main artery. (rumored someone in town planning bought a house on that road and was trying to make it so they didnt have to wait a long time for a gap in traffic)

So they made it a 3 way stop unsteady of just the dirt road having a stop sign. This caused tragic to back up miles on either side, as it was pretty much the only stop on the main road going out to the town's comercial district (100s of work vehicles traveling it at 9 and 5)

Almost immediatley, People started coming out with chain saws, and wpuld cut down the 4x4 wood signpost. Leaving the stump and the concrete block in the ground. Fairly quickly, the town ran out of room on the narrow strip between the road and the bike path, and started hammering in metal posts, wedged between the buried cement supports.

Guys with welders on their trucks started cutting those down flush with the ground. At one point, a cop car was stationed there overnight.

The police report detailed 2 trucks, with chain strung between them, driving on either side of the post at speed, wrapping the sign, and tearing it out of the ground before dropping the chain.

Thst was about as far as it got before town meeting, where an inquest was called for into the appropriateness , and approval process, and who had put in the work order etc. (There was some passage about the planning board being able to make minor changes to signage, etc without impact studies, and going through the approval process (which includes open forum, and with enough detractors to a project can force it to be put to a vote)

The main point of contention being how anyone qualified to be in that position could think that something that caused a 30-60 minute delay on a 5 mile road qualified as a 'minor change'

Iirc the whole thing ended with the town cementing over that little strip (covering over all the metal and wood protrusions, and effectively signaling a stop sign couldn't be put there anymore) and then several members of the planing commision, resigning their posts, which made the inquest moot.