Honk If You Love Stupid Signs
Encountered this sign at the corner of Orleans and Kinzie the other day.
When I see a sign like this, of course I want to do the exact opposite.
Perhaps it is the 13 year old boy in me.
It took everything I had not to lay on the horn for about one or two minutes.
My guess?
The prissy neighbors who live in the condos, like the convenience and thrill of living downtown but don’t like what comes with living in a big bad urban setting.
That includes cars sometimes honking their horns.
My advice to people who can’t handle a few car horns?
Move to the suburbs.
The pseudo sign does not appear to be issued by the city, BOGUS!
Unfortunately, I’m not bored enough right now to go check city ordinances, but I’m with RLD. This doesn’t look like an official sign to me.
If the sign had any official meaning, couldn’t a lazy cop just fill their entire quota by doing nothing but ticketing cab drivers? Even if the cabbie didn’t actually honk his horn at that moment, who would believe him?
If the sign is not official, the sign owner has violated a law.
If you look at the mounting hardware and also realize how high up this sign is (over 8′ off the ground) you get the impression it is a city installed sign. That’s just my opinion.
A layperson would have had to go to a lot of trouble to install it so professionally and risking getting busted doing sign vigilantism.
I think residents whined to the alderman and he got CDOT to put in the sign.
I checked the ordinances. Nothing about horns prohibited at specific locations. Here’s what is there about not using the horn (horn appears elsewhere in the code requiring vehicles to have one and says to use it in case of danger, etc, similar to a here):
9-40-240 Use of horns and signals devices.
(a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall, when reasonably necessary to insure safe operation, give audible warning with his horn but shall not otherwise use such horn at any time.
(b) The sounding of any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle while stationary, except as a danger signal when an approaching vehicle is apparently out of control, or, if in motion, only as a danger signal after or as brakes are being applied and deceleration of the vehicle is intended, or the creation by means of any such signal device of any unreasonably loud or harsh sound or the sounding of any such device for an unnecessary and unreasonable period of time, is hereby prohibited.
Actually it is a legit sign. They are all over the downtown area. It is actually aimed at cabs as it seems there hands are glued to there horns beeping at anyone they can see walking down the street, or if someone doesn’t move fast enough for them. It actually doesn’t have anything to do with the “Prissy” condo dwellers. Don’t hate because some of you can’t afford to live downtown!
The hardware is indeed legit. I have also seen these signs pass through my inventory of decommissioned Chicago street signs at ChicagoStreetSigns.com. If you would like one for your man-cave, garage, bar, whatever, go to my website or send me an email at questions@ChicagoStreetSigns.com. I’ll see if we have that, or any other particular decommissioned street sign in our inventory. Please note that particularly popular signs (such as Clark & Addison) get auctioned off on Ebay. If you send us an email, we can alert you when such auction takes place.
I should also point out that the banding material also appears to be correct. Most fake ones that you see (such as many signs made up for valet companies that they often attach to the post) use neither the banding material nor the mounting bracket. Instead, they are bolted directly through the sign to one of the smaller post or I have even seen where they have hooks and are temporarily placed over another sign to try keeping you from parking using a loading or standing zone.
Shixxy….when was the last time you saw 018 or 001 district cops actually pull a cab over for the use of their Horn?
If you are too sensitive to a car horn….move to Swaziland Shixxy…and GTFO of civilization.
Cornhole!