- Fresno’s $2.4 million traffic signal finally activates after 10 months.
- Years of planning and city-county coordination caused major delays.
- Local businesses say traffic flow and safety improved significantly.
Sometimes bureaucracy doesn’t just slow things down, it brings them to a near standstill. The phrase red tape often conjures images of government excess, endless regulations, and half-finished projects. Rarely, though, do we get to see exactly how it conforms to those stereotypes.
A telling example comes out of California, where one traffic signal took nearly a year to go live, not to mention that it cost about $2.4 million by the time it finally started working.
A Bureaucratic Detour…