Honest to god, who thinks up this crap? And get's paid for it. And probably gets some sort of kickback:
- The City of Chicago is hoping to improve pedestrian safety at certain unprotected street crossings with brightly-colored flags that people can use to be sure cars know they are there.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, the flags are in what basically amount to buckets hanging from streetlight poles on either side of the street.
Pedestrians can take one of the several orange flags from a bucket, and wave it as they make their way across the street. At that point, the flags are placed in the identical bucket on the other side of the crossing.
We almost drove off the road laughing when we heard this one. And the first intersection to have flags in the bucket? 64th and Western.
We give the buckets about a week before they're gone. The flags won't last a day.