You might recall the image below that Denise J. sent in of a street stamp on Lake Street back in July that used an upside down “7” in place of the L.
I guess someone 311’d the issue or someone from DPW is reading the blog, because they came back out to do a repair job on it.
What do you think? You like the original flub or the re-do?
Sarah B.
It had more character before 🙂
Maybe it was too much like the movie ‘Se7en’
Wow, way to ugly it up. Why not replace the whole word so it’s even? It draws even more attention now.
But on the other hand, future generations of Richmondites will notice the scratchy ‘L’ and ponder what could have been in its place. Food for thought.
I imagine, over time, that scratched out area in which the “L” was engraved, will blend in with the rest of the texture and coloring of the sidewalk. But I did like the “7” better.
We went decades with backward Z’s in Anza. Leave these sorts of things alone so we taxpayers can be reminded of just how “local” city government workers are.
The old way is kinda cool…
…Hey, they left out the “T” in “Latke.”
The left edge of the picture reminds me that somewhere down in the Portola District I saw where the handicap ramp contractor did the yellow ramps as a sort of crazy quilt, using all the little scraps of plastic they had leftover from the whole pieces everywhere else in the city.
i 7ike the seven better myself. and how much did this cost the city to change (it would be silly to call it a repair)? that will require the parking enforcement department to write one or two more parking tickets!!! no biggie, they’ll just do it on overtime…
How many seasons before rain gets under the patch and pops it out. Then it will be a misspelled version of ACHE (AKE) street.
I wonder if they’ve ever forgotten to press an L into the cement on Clement, naming it CEMENT St.
it’s a waste of resources to have fixed this. the “error” falls in the category of “first world problems”, aka “rich people’s problems”.
slightly related–I imagine most folks have noticed that street signs are now produced in MIxed Case / Title Case instead of UPPER CASE. I haven’t figured out if they are actually being retrofitted, or if the new style is only used when a new sign is needed anyway.
What a bunch of Ba7oney! 🙂
They’re still pressing street names into the concrete?!?! Wow, I thought that was a thing of the past. Seems like lots of intersections don’t have that any more.
7ike other posters here, I kind of 7ike the upside-down seven…. 😉