Especially when he says "I wish this story had a happy ending. Spoiler: it doesn’t.
I couldn’t keep the Amazon Bump out there; there were some serious liability issues. I did get the SFMTA’s attention, they let me know a month later that my application was approved. That was 35 months ago and we still don’t have a bump."
There's actually even a name for such actions: tactical urbanism.
It reminds me of the old story about the guy who had been calling the county to fill a pothole for months and finally as soon as he started filling it himself and let the county know, the crews came out to fix.
Or there's stories in Atlanta of steel plates being laid for months to years (a common scourge in Atlanta) and then magically they get fixed and removed once someone spray-paints dicks on them.
Especially when he says "I wish this story had a happy ending. Spoiler: it doesn’t.
I couldn’t keep the Amazon Bump out there; there were some serious liability issues. I did get the SFMTA’s attention, they let me know a month later that my application was approved. That was 35 months ago and we still don’t have a bump."
There's actually even a name for such actions: tactical urbanism.
It reminds me of the old story about the guy who had been calling the county to fill a pothole for months and finally as soon as he started filling it himself and let the county know, the crews came out to fix.
Or there's stories in Atlanta of steel plates being laid for months to years (a common scourge in Atlanta) and then magically they get fixed and removed once someone spray-paints dicks on them.