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An Intelligent Question
By Judi Curry
Suppose you were walking on Sunset Cliffs, looking at the glorious view and came across this sign. What would you think it meant?
The city, in all of its glory, has now posted this sign so that walkers have an idea where they are? Or where they can go? Or ?????????
I’m not going to tell you what’s it all about – at least not yet – but I’d love to see what you think it might be telling you when you come across it.
I wonder how much it cost?????
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I think the red dot for “you are here” says I am in the Pacific Ocean. Which is sometimes true but I’m confused by this map about where I am.
What do you think it represents?
Glorious City artistry stemming from an appreciation of modern art, abstract art, and Neo-Impressionism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Impressionism
By the way – have you ever seen this sign before? Where?
D2 staff said the stairs would be “accessible”. I suppose this sign attempts to satisfy some legal by providing alternative ADA access to the coast? Certainly they aren’t putting in an elevator.
I wonder if this sign could’ve saved us $1.2M at dog beach instead of those new useless ramps to nowhere that are still perpetually buried in sand and begging for another lawsuit.
I think kh nailed it. The part, “Newport Ave (Access to OB Pier Parking Lot Only)” puzzled me. This is an inventive approach to the requirement for ADA Access to the beach.
Hahaha, word/sign salad at its best! Oy!
Wait… why doesn’t it show that new hamburger store on Newport?
Good idea Vern! Why not show all the businesses! Like a map at the mall.
A guess – for ADA access, it might have been originally to point to the Pier. But since the pier is closed, they had to change the sign to to the parking lot. But don’t all of the parking lots have a Handicapped parking sign? I would think so. But this is entirely conjecture. The whole thing still a mystery to me.
I think it would be helpful for handicapped individuals and non-handicapped individuals to know where the main lifeguard station is but it’s not on the map.
Without reading the other comments iveoild assume this sign is posted to direct handicap beach goers back to Santa Monica’s handicap access beach since the new Bermuda access is not handicap accessible?
Obsurfer, for sure. But is Santa Monica Ave. the little orange line or the blue dotted line? But the blue dotted line in the legend is specified as the distance from Bermuda Ave. stairs. More specifically, the blue dotted line represents the distance of 1.2 miles/1.9 kilometers and not a street. I’ve got no issue with putting kilometers on our maps but didn’t know that was a thing in the US now. I’m all for the metric system but kind of weird to see. I also may have missed the news flash that Americans are using the metric system now as I was out of the country for a couple years.
The area is called Sunset Cliffs not Sunset Ramps and it is over a mile to the Pier. Not a very sensible location for the sign. This is like a braille sign in a drive thru.
That’s a crafty name!! I think braille may have been more useful than what is actually shown. On that note — is braille signage required these days? I was out of the country and have no idea what all happened here in San Diego.
Is there a “city of SD” tag on the back of this “sign” or a department printed on the face (lower left or lower right)?
Or a prankster hologram?
There have been prankster signs and other additions to our public commons areas over the years.
Yes… yes there have been.
Mysteries all around.
The mystery sign is on Bermuda Ave, fenced off again today by the contractor for the Bermuda Street Stairs, to whom it was delivered. So, I think kh was on the right track – it is the engineers’ attempt to meet ADA requirements. It may have been designed before the pier was closed, and modified to meet current ADA parking spaces. Presumably the Pier parking lot has ADA spaces (I don’t know that to be true), but access to the pier itself when it was open would have been more of an uphill problem to solve.
Well it’s actually in someone’s yard so hard to say whose sign it is.
For decades people have gone to the beach without all this nonsense! Handicapped people, old ladies, old gents, babies. On that note I see people carrying their babies down all kinds of dangerous paths to beaches all over San Diego. But nobody worries about that I guess.