I thought this was both ingenious and damn funny. Residents of a street in the Sydney suburb of Beecroft were tired of hundreds of cars using their small street each morning during peak hour on a rat run to avoid clogged Beecroft Road. So one day, a sign appeared, stating "no left turn" was permitted between the hours of 7.30am and 9.30am, expertly nailed into a power pole on the corner of Beecroft and Albert roads.
It turns out the sign was a fake, erected without the knowledge of the RTA, which controls Beecroft Road, or Hornsby Shire Council, which has jurisdiction over Albert Road. This didn’t stop the mayor of Hornsby Council turning up at the corner to accept congratulations for the new sign, which residents had been campaigning for for some time. Nor did it stop police from enforcing what the sign said, and about 200 motorists were pinged over a three-month period, each of them fined $175.
It is unclear when the penny dropped or who first worked out the sign should not have been there. The RTA says the Council approached it first. Police urged all drivers fined for disobeying the sign to call the State Debt Recovery Office.
So there you go, don’t like something, and not getting action from the authorities – just take care of it yourself. Even have your fake law enforced for you by those authorities.
Shhh but it’s given me a GREAT idea for …. nothing *looks innocent*
Our street is used as a cut through and it drives most of the residents bonkers, since those who use it to cut through the bad traffic as a speedway.