The sign marking Northline Street fell sometime last week. There it lay, beneath the telephone pole that once held it. It had been drooping precipitously and could have been rattled loose by a passing truck or pushed off its perch by a brisk October breeze.
Or maybe the poor sign simply surrendered to the inevitable and took the plunge all on its own. After all, the New Orleans City Council seems likely to do away with Northline Street entirely.
After all, it’s a troublesome little roadway, just 350 feet long, easily mixed up with several other streets. In the past it had only two road signs. Now it has half as many…