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Placement of the sign in the pedestrian path is a terrible decision. How about some thought to the visually impaired who can now run into an unexpected obstruction.

Because of underground utilities the sign pole was installed in its current location while allowing for sidewalk clearance.

Extremely skeptical of that response. How deep are the utilities? How deep is a sign post? What about the tree wells and other sign posts installed over the same utility run? How about some common sense?

I also felt a bit skeptical. If the underground utilities are running under the sidewalk, what about all the other trees and sign posts? If it's a lateral running to the Post Office building wouldn't it still be under where the sign post was installed? I'm curious about which utility as well. It doesn't help that several other sign posts have been erroneously installed recently in the middle of sidewalks.

When drilling into existing sidewalks, crews have less flexibility in placing new sign poles close to existing utilities. Other signs and trees on this corridor were installed as part of the construction of the street, which allows the contractor to safely place the sign without risk of damaging the utility infrastructure.