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Friday Five: Signing in the Sports World

Friday, February 3, 2012 – It’s a big week in sports, especially football. So in honor of the greatest spectacle of Sport and Americana, the Super Bowl, we decided to take a break from safety signs and focus on another Signing Industry. After the jump, we present the top 5 sign-related sports stories of the […]

Friday Five: The week’s top safety and sign news updates

Friday, January 27, 2012 – This week is No Name-Calling Week. Inspired by the novel The Misfits, this initiative seeks to focus national attention on the problem of bullying and name-calling in schools. We’d like to extend this to the sign industry, especially given a recent series of possibly offensive signs that restaurant owner Cameron […]

Flashing crosswalks continue their reign of terror: Now with 8 miles-per-hour signs

Monday, January 9, 2012 – Due to the increase of pedestrian and bicycle accidents in Boulder, Colorado, the city’s crosswalks will soon feature new 8 mph signs. Hypothetically speaking, Mary lives in Boulder, Colorado. As a 45-year-old schoolteacher, she bikes to her local high school every morning by crossing the intersection of Broadway and Baseline […]

Why you should lock your bike: A numerical study

MyAssetTag.com, who are the front runners in providing asset tags solutions, has the latest numbers for bike theft trends, and they’re not good. The folks who staff the asset tag retailer – they’ve got your bike tags here – have gone digging through public records made available by the FBI, and made some phone calls to […]

New York Uses Poetry to Make Roads Safer for Pedestrians

The New York City Transportation Department is resorting to some interesting measures to decrease risks for pedestrians – 144 of them, to be exact. Featuring 12 designs from the artist John Morse, the new signs of the Curbside Haiku campaign will remind New York City’s budding poetry lovers to watch the road when crossing it. […]

How Are No Standing, No Parking, and No Stopping Signs Different?

Have you ever come across a situation when you want to grab a cup of coffee on the go but there are these signs along the curb which are really confusing? Often, people get puzzled trying to figure out the difference between No Standing, No Parking and No Stopping Signs. Though confusing, each and every […]

Illegal Trash Dumpers: You are Being Watched

You get up in the morning and find your streetcorner filled with trash illegally dumped there! How are you going to react? Illegal trash dumping is one of the most annoying violations and is often carried out by the residents of our own community. Some part of the illegal dumping is also done by delivery […]