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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Does anybody care?!

I'm going to write about a pet peeve of mine. Those silly signs that found their way into Logan through the winter advising us as to what sort of burn day it was. You know, Red, Yellow, Green. I've had a hard time believing that people would really change their driving habits according to these signs. In addition, I haven't met anybody who has. But I did find an interesting link in the herald journal about how participation has been good, but probably didn't affect much anyway. It seems to me that the way to make less car pollution is to make cars that pollute less more attractive to the consumer.

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At 8:28 AM, Blogger Kent said...

Does the city do more advertising than those signs to let us know if it is a red, yellow, or green burn day? I don't even realize that it is a red day until I pass one of those signs and then its already to late. I'm going were I intended. So I agree that the use of these signs is futile.

The promotion of more fuel efficient cars sounds like a great idea. Maybe you could get tax credits for using "cleaner" cars.

 
At 11:03 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

They used to always follow the "yellow" burn days with "red" ones, and when people realized that a Red Day was coming up, they would drive more on that Yellow Day to accomplish everything they needed to do. This only made the red burn days worse and more frequent.

 
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