As a kid, I wondered why my parents would continue driving past those without even flinching.
“Bridge Ices Before Road”
I originally took this “before” spatially, as like “in front of”. So the bridge ices in a very particular spot — just before the bridge ends and your route becomes road again.
Reminds me of me as a kid getting upset with my grandmother once for taking a sip from her water bottle while driving, because I had heard from so many tv ads that "drinking while driving" was highly illegal.
and this is why symbolic signs are preferable to text, if native speakers of the language can't reliably interpret them correctly it's a bit of a problem!
When I was a kid I came up with a name for the group that snuck in and set up those signs, "Polite People for the Cessation of Byway Maintenance". They always put their protest signs up a respectful distance away and always just the one in each direction, thus the polite people part.
Freeways are free. Alleys are allies. Avenues have venues. Way -- that's just a universally accepted "yes"! It's 2024. Only roads are forced to work?! My asphalt!.
Unironically, I support completely ceasing all road construction (even "just" repaving, let alone widening) until every street has been brought up to "complete streets" standard with proper sidewalks and bike lanes. Car drivers do not deserve more spending until cyclists and pedestrians are made first-class citizens!
Given that it takes a long time to bring a street up to standard (budgeting, design, contracting, and constructing), that would probably be 10-20 years at an optimistic estimate to get every street up. In that time, under your proposal, the roads would become undrivable, and therefore:
Emergency vehicles would be unable to operate. Thousands die.
Traffic increases exponentially as the usable roads become increasingly infrequent and commuters flock to the few good ones. The above problem is made worse; gas usage increases dramatically as more and more cars sit idle for hours a day.
Highway safety plummets. Thousands die in avoidable crashes.
Roads become impassible to trucks. Deliveries of food and goods grind to a halt. Starvation, food riots, economic collapse follow.
I'm all for increasing walkability and bikability; I'm fortunate enough to live in a city that is both, and it's great. Proposals like this, however, do nothing but make it look like the movement is a bunch of "fuck cars" knee-jerkers who know nothing about infrastructure and can thus be safely disregarded.