There's another side of stuff like this. People living up in the hills above LA near trail heads will put up fake no parking zones in front of their houses. People have gotten real tickets in fake zones.

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riffic 2 hours ago | parent [-]

a counterexample of good tactical urbanism in Los Angeles People's Vision Zero, a group painting crosswalks where the city itself won't budge on safety demands (motonormativity is the rule)

https://www.reddit.com/r/BikeLA/comments/1pl8guj/i_started_a...

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GaryBluto 2 hours ago | parent [-]

>painting crosswalks where the city itself won't budge

So, political vandals?

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riffic 2 hours ago | parent [-]

direct action gets the goods.

If you haven't noticed this entire thread is about illicit infrastructure. There could be a moral argument to be had (which you are not making) but no one is denying the vandalism aspect.

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GaryBluto 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But people obviously don't want the "goods", by and large. Otherwise the city would budge.

	▲	samrus an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thats such a wild assumption. Your saying the government always folows the will of the public? Theres nothing people want that governments are giving them?
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	▲	mkaic an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		unless the city governance is in the pocket of the wealthiest members of the city's population, and those members don't want the goods. I witnessed this first hand in Los Angeles when I lived there.
	▲	arijun an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Huh? Are cities near you known for quick and easy-to-navigate bureaucratic processes?
	▲	mbrameld an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		[citation needed]