Re: Cost of a Traffic Signal ??

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:26:51 -0700, Jim Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gave us:

>
>My question: What does it cost (purchase and install) for a traffic
>light?


  The light and controller could be around $100k.  Installing it,
probably twice that, at the rate our illustrious government gold
bricker fucks bill the shit out.

  It took 30 years and several deaths for them to do this at an
intersection in northern greater Cincinnati.

  They cut away 40 feet of elevation on the hill approach, however.

  It was a 55 changing into a forty 300 feet before the light even,
and the shit STILL happened.  Flashing red on Pippin, flashing yellow
on Kemper... still no change.

  Cost?  Probably booked it at a couple million... the bastards.  Had
they done it back when it was needed, several people would still be
here, and the cost would have been several hundred k$ less, I'm sure.
If not more.

  What gets me is that business, and people pay exorbitant taxes, and
these bastards make $100k plus salaries to NOT get their fucking job
done!

  The fucking streets should be paved in gold by now, and schools too!
The bastard suck away millions in perks, for NO WORK DONE!

 They suck away millions more in lottery "earnings" and the schools
STILL suck!

  I want the same exact constitution and government we have, with an
entirely different crew doing it, and doing it for LESS pay than is
the current level.  The lame assed NON-stateman pricks have
practically tripled their salaries in the last ten years.

 That's pretty goddamned lame, considering their lackluster
performances.

  We should scrutinize the bastards MORE.  We have been complacent too
fucking long.  People are stupid.

  This great, claims to be "intelligent" state of California elected
Ahhnohld.  Proof that even smart people can be utter retards.
And utter retards can be thwarted into the limelight and the master
button box based on image alone.

  I hope he fails as a lesson to retards that claim to be smart
everywhere.