The logical time - even though late - to refresh, redraw Nelson's white/yellow lines to give traffic, parking, etc. a structure for order: by the end of June.
Logical - because summer here officially starts with lots of cold brewskies around July 1. Traffic increases with often hapless tourists not knowing where/what/how: these markings give meaning to their lives and Nelson a clean and fresh image.
Late - because old markings always(!) are pretty much gone by the end of winter. With contractors wanting to keep the overhead down: cheaper paint - thinly applied yet! - just doesn't last long.
The job - curiously - is never done by the holiday - but this year seemingly later than ever. City Works possibly want to wait for the Hall redo to be finished first. If that's the case - with the job not nearly complete - there won't be much point in repainting at all this year. With summer tourists soon gone!
Whatever the reason: the result is a disconnect from public safety and an economically advantageous image of the whole. Lest they forget: one basic responsibility of a city is its citizens' safety on every level.
Usually a matter of course: in other cities safety has been the reason behind these white/yellow broken/solid markings of lanes, intersections, turns and - the biggie: stop-signs, street-lights and pedestrian-crosswalks! These days - not so much in Nelson.
With markings now hardly visible any longer - drivers' stops at stop-signs, street-lights and pedestrian-crosswalks are often just vaguely come to or ignored completely. Then there's distracted driving, with Nelson drivers generally not the most with-it anyway. Add to that pedestrians often heedless of signals and even clear markings to begin with: they may ignore crossing-rules more frequently - jay-walk more, too! Plus - deep breath! - trance-walking tourists....!
We've been lucky. So far!
We all know probable trouble-spots - like Vernon/Hendryx and Vernon/Ward! As do the cops - who ought to nudge City Hall to have something done about the situation! Now!
Specifically - nudge the otherwise omnipresent CAO!
The Supremes - Song-Lyrics: Stop in the name of love!
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