“Signs of the Times”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-21-road-signs-all-caps-lowercase_N.htm
The Federal Highway Administration is requiring all cities and towns to replace street signs with all capital letters with upper and lowercase signs by the year 2015. The problem with the all-caps signs is that everyone thinks their GPS satellite photos are yelling at them.

This new government regulation may be irrelevant. Not only are many towns too cash-strapped to make new signs, it’s expected that by 2015, everyone in America will be illiterate anyway.

The government says they want to make the signs easier for everyone to read. Kids in public schools were hoping that would mean all streets would just get shorter names.