The council met to consider what to do next, and the consensus that emerged was to do... nothing.
... [+]The city council in Ames, Iowa has decided to keep its colorful, inclusion-themed crosswalks at a downtown intersection, despite a sharply-worded request from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration.
"The white crosswalk markings allowed are tested and proven to be recognized as a legally marked crossing location for pedestrians," Johnson wrote in the Sept. 5 letter to Ames City Manager Steve Schainker."Crosswalk art diminishes the contrast between the white lines and the pavement, potentially decreasing the effectiveness of the crosswalk markings and the safety of pedestrian traffic.
On Thursday, the council met to consider what to do next, and the consensus that emerged was to do... nothing. And all those projects have run afoul of the FHWA. Although the highway administration ruled in 2013 that some forms of crosswalk art with paints devoid of reflective properties in muted colors would meet its guidelines, it said painting pavement in colors for aesthetic reasons does not qualify as a traffic control device.
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