Signs that inform you about signs.

There are these new signs outside Fincastle that warn you that there is a 45 mile per hour zone ahead. Is it just me or isn't that what the 45 MPH signs are supposed to tell us? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to move the existing signs 100 feet out to where the new signs are if people are not slowing down in time.

Perhaps people don't notice the 45 MPH signs, maybe that's why they put up the signs pointing them out. It would be better to redesign the signs that people don't notice or else we are going to end up with two sets of signs for every situation.

Where does this end? If people don't slow down enough now are we going to have signs stating that there are signs ahead warning us that there will be a speed limit decrease after that? Or a sign warning us of a sign warning us of a sign warning us of a sign? You get the idea.

I know, let's just give tickets to those who exceed the speed limit! Wait, we do that already.

Just confused by our highway department putting up signs about signs in the middle of a huge economic downturn.

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