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Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
Most pointless 9/11 Commemoration
Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco, has asked the city traffic department to turn every traffic light in the city red at 5:46 AM, to commemorate the anniversary of the attack.There are 32 traffic control systems that will have to be reprogrammed and/or have manual intervention to cause this to happen, at a time when very few people are likely to be thinking of anything beyond trying not to get in a crash when they're driving half asleep and in the dark. It's hard to see who this commemorates beyond Willie Brown's skill at self-promotion.
Oh, one more thing: he came up with this bright idea yesterday. If they are actually so foolish as to try and crash program this idea, I'll bet that the commemoration lasts far longer than a single minute, as a screwed up traffic system is recoordinated by hand.
