Possibility: They know it’s in the wrong spot. They don’t know why. So they figure someone screwed up, they don’t know who, but they don’t want it to be them or their department. So nobody says anything, and the stop remains unchanged.

Thank you, it was the first thing I thought and was about to go search for it

This is done in a number of overpasses on the DC beltway and “mixing bowl”

A road may go North while the other direction goes East and the signs will point that out but the road might actually be labeled South for a bit despite the sign saying East.

So folks have rappelled off the overpasses and painted EAST and an arrow or NORTH and an arrow in places like this.

And everyone clapped.

Difference here is that he was correctly a clear mistake. OOP here did it for their own selfish reasons

Given the original sign covered 7-9.30am seems like it's to prevent people cutting across traffic during peak commuting time either to prevent accidents or improve the flow of traffic.

7-9:30a Definitely speaks to it being rush-hour specific.

It's to try and prevent people from cutting through a neighborhood during rush hour. Common in more gridded cities.

If you bring it up, then it could end up in some bureaucratic limbo where nothing ever gets done. And then afterwards if you go to change it yourself they’ll figure it was you. So maybe easier just to change it yourself in the first place?

School kids probably

There's a sign by my house, on a road I need to turn right on at about 420 every day, that says no right-on-red turns between 730am to 430pm on school days.

It's frustrating, because it doesn't seem like it's actually protecting children for 9 hours a day

His sign wasn't useless, the new one was about 20% less useless.

I had one of those by my house, not in the residential area.

Morning turners would back up the lane into another light, so the sign was just to cover up for bad traffic design

Maybe he caused a 50-car pileup and killed hundreds of puppies.

Unfortunately people just park on bike lanes, so there's no good damn point.

Just don't get caught.

Hi-vis vest, hardhat, and a clipboard(optional but stylish). You can do practically anything.

98% of the population believes everything they're told and obeys all the rules. It's that 2% you need to watch.

Flock is getting kicked out of towns left and right.

Thanks, Ron.

20 years ago, our town had a war over an intersection.

Someone decided to upgrade a 3 way intersection, for a a dirt road going into the woods off a main artery. (rumored someone in town planning bought a house on that road and was trying to make it so they didnt have to wait a long time for a gap in traffic)

So they made it a 3 way stop unsteady of just the dirt road having a stop sign. This caused tragic to back up miles on either side, as it was pretty much the only stop on the main road going out to the town's comercial district (100s of work vehicles traveling it at 9 and 5)

Almost immediatley, People started coming out with chain saws, and wpuld cut down the 4x4 wood signpost. Leaving the stump and the concrete block in the ground. Fairly quickly, the town ran out of room on the narrow strip between the road and the bike path, and started hammering in metal posts, wedged between the buried cement supports.

Guys with welders on their trucks started cutting those down flush with the ground. At one point, a cop car was stationed there overnight.

The police report detailed 2 trucks, with chain strung between them, driving on either side of the post at speed, wrapping the sign, and tearing it out of the ground before dropping the chain.

Thst was about as far as it got before town meeting, where an inquest was called for into the appropriateness , and approval process, and who had put in the work order etc. (There was some passage about the planning board being able to make minor changes to signage, etc without impact studies, and going through the approval process (which includes open forum, and with enough detractors to a project can force it to be put to a vote)

The main point of contention being how anyone qualified to be in that position could think that something that caused a 30-60 minute delay on a 5 mile road qualified as a 'minor change'

Iirc the whole thing ended with the town cementing over that little strip (covering over all the metal and wood protrusions, and effectively signaling a stop sign couldn't be put there anymore) and then several members of the planing commision, resigning their posts, which made the inquest moot.

I have on numerous occasions considered ordering bike route signage to place up on bike safe routes. The city has official signs for it but puts basically none up. If I could just order a lot more to put up it could encourage more folks to join.