Their were 8 signs.
At some point they realize, ‘hey these aren’t needed anymore’ and they pull out 5. 5 of the 8 is an incomplete job.

Inconsistent… by some theory ACHD should know where they have signs and where they don’t- and why.

These 3 signs were up some amount of time AFTER the other 5 were pulled… and it takes Guardian to bring it to their attention. One might think ACHD has a district manager(COMMISSIONER) that actually drives around their district from time to time evaluating the condition of the road, signs, lights, etc.

In a story form:
imagine you owned a retail computer store. Five years ago you realized you have 8 Model T’s in your inventory; they are 10 years obsolete. You decided to get rid of your obsolete Model T. You junked 5 of them. Then yesterday your janitor comes up to tell you, Hey, JBolwby, you have 3 Model T’s back there in your warehouse. Are you crazy? Those things have been worthless for 15 years!”

Good business practice?

Thanks janitor Joe, I’ll get rid of them when work allows.

Inconsistent and incomplete is everything from the yellow sidewalk pads, to street lights, to chipseal, to paving alley aprons, to CommuterRide.

It is a tough job.
With better structure and better management in the past, there should have been better results across the board. Hopefully the new Director is interested in improvements instead of hiring more PR people.

To Easterner, I said it would only take a minute to call and ask – it’s certainly reasonably for it to take ACHD staff a day or two to search records, get the an answer and then contact the Sheriff’s department to see if the remaining signs were still needed.

Not sure about your ‘typical ACHD’ comment. It is a reasonable response. The initial reason the signs were installed may be questionable, but after 18 years of them being in place (and without previously being asked about them??) for ACHD to have a response with a week isn’t bad.

Inconsistent and incomplete.

So I think I win the guessing game.
There is not an rational explanation.

Guardian, I am curious when you received that response from the top dog PR person at ACHD, to compare to JBowlby’s comment of it shouldn’t take “more than a minute to call and ask”.

EDITOR NOTE–The response was timely. We have been in a remodel here at the GUARDIAN world headquarters and computers have been down, so we missed it at first.