No Bikes: Sign Removed

September 16th, 2012
bikes
On Wednesday I wrote about trying to get an illegal "no bikes" sign taken down.

no bikes on road

I wrote to the DCR who administers that road, and was feeling kind of annoyed that they hadn't responded, but today I noticed a change:

no 'no bikes on road' sign

Sorry about the abysmal picture quality but, as you can tell, the sign is gone. Responsive government!

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