Another stupid unfunded mandate-this time for our highways.

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Signs for every curve. Yup, if there is a curve, there is supposed to be a sign for it now. Not just for severe curves or sneaky curves or hard-to-see curves or curves where there have been accidents or slippery-when-wet curves, but slight curves and curves that are on new 911 mandated roads (many of them are driveways, driveways called roads or drives with signs because more than one house is on it). One town has done the math. 715 more unsigned curves and over half a million dollars in signs. Why so much money? Because we can't have regular signs now, they must be higly reflective signs. Black and orange just don't "cut-it" any more. Many roads in the very rural area are only for one or two houses, dead end, and some are cow paths that tractors run on, but because there are two barns that are now numbered. . ., you get my drift as to how stupid this is. A 15 mile per hour tractor going to a barn needs a highly reflective sign, like the farmer and his family haven't driven these hard-packed cow paths and maintained them for 3 generations without having major accidents. When will all this foolishness end? Do you know of any stupid unfunded mandates where you live (they don't have to be highways)? Our schools, roads, hospitals, everything that already costs money have unfunded mandates. Life is getting to be more and more expensive all the time. Now they give orders to rural communities that cost money and in many places make no sense. Please get us off this merry-go-round, I want to get off!