The U.S. Federal Highway Administration is forcing New York City to change every street sign in the city! The objection, as you can see, is that the current signs use all capital letters. The new signs use upper and lower case letters making them easier to read. The FHA says that these changes will help save lives. (I'm not kidding!) The font style has also changed.
Keep in mind that the "All Capital" format has been used in NYC for more than 100 years! I think the capital letters are easier to read - the letters are bigger! The cost of this change? $110 per sign (parts & labor) for a total of $27.6 million. Work must be completed by 2018.
This Sunday when you visit your local house of worship, please remember to thank God that we have a national government that cares enough about us little people to make sure that we can easily read our street signs! Again, the guys in Washington know so much more than our people in City Hall!
