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That Sinking Feeling

A peeved motorist expresses himself with guerilla signage.

Published

13 years ago

May 13, 2011

Robin Donovan Signs of the Times May 2011 Issue

Drivers dread them every winter or spring and, with government budget cutbacks, they remain a year-round danger to your car: potholes. After a cold winter whose chill stretched into April, motorists on West Seattle’s Beach Drive, a main thoroughfare, endured a heavy ration of potholes. One anonymous weisenheimer (seemingly with a latent desire to become a signmaker) decorated a cardboard slab and filled this then-vacant wayfinding-sign frame to convey his frustration with “axle busters.”

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