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Pleasanton’s familiar but aging wooden street signs throughout Main Street are now a thing of the past after city workers replaced the signs Tuesday with new and modern green ones.
According to the city’s communications manager, Heather Tiernan, the city made the decision to replace the old signs because of “safety concerns and compliance issues.”
“They were all in poor condition, eroding and falling apart on the poles,” Tiernan told the Weekly Tuesday afternoon.
Longtime resident Linda Kelly expressed her thoughts about the signage to the Weekly. Though she acknowledged there are signs that clearly need replacing like Division Street, she also criticized the city’s timing for swapping out the signs around town.
“The optics of using staff time when we are right in the middle of perhaps the most serious financial crisis in the history of Pleasanton just blew me away,” Kelly said. “And since signs were converted to the green and white ones at least 30 years ago, why did that suddenly become a priority?”
Tiernan said she did not have the numbers for how much the installation project cost the city; however, she noted that all of the signs were made in house and printed in the city’s sign shop.
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Talk about a slow news day. The optics of installing a high-visibility sign is that it can be seen at night! Especially for those with glasses who struggle with headlight glare while driving at night.
Same logic on the signs as was used replacing garbage cans in parks. Waste of money.
I wouldn’t, couldn’t and didn’t say it was a waste of money. I believe the timing is questionable, given the extreme efforts that are being put forth to cut popular services to residents. The work should have been done some time ago, but someone stopped it before 22 signs were changed. It is unclear who that someone might have been.