Repost from Laura Michet's blog on 'No Pedestrian Crossing' signs

From Laura Michet 's blog, a post about an abandoned project to catalog Los Angeles' "No Pedestrian Crossing" signs: The main thing I'd want to communicate is that the places where these signs go up are uniformly miserable. It sucks to be a person on foot in a place where the state has to warn you that it's too dangerous to cross a regular city street. These streets are terrible, loud, dirty, and…