I’ve been riding the Hiawatha line on and off from the very opening, and I could see that the paint wasn’t going to last very long. When your budgets are tight though, you set your priorities. Someone always thinks that some things are more important than you do, of course. The next manager of that dept may well agree with alert reader Dennis and redo those. Perhaps the contractor used cheaper paint than agreed to and pocketed the difference. I’ve seen other yellow street markings last a lot longer than these did.

Lights on is a rather subjective subject. I’ve got a beige car that seems to become invisible to other drivers on cloudy days and at dusk, and I’ve learned to turn my lights on to make myself more visible. The thing with the GM DRLs is that only the front lights turn on, not the rear. So in rainy and snowy weather, to adhere to the letter of the law, the primary headlights should still be turned on. That way the tail lights are on also.