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This story involves an entire town and its taxpayers held hostage for the economic benefit of one man. re a little neighborhood called Woodmere. And we’ve never had a need for sidewalks because there is not enough traffic here. There has never been a stop sign here, and there’s never been an issue with this corner.
So what do we know about this mysterious stop sign requester? Well, his name is not a mystery – Ben Dubin. It’s right there on the stop sign request. But what is it that’s driving this guy? One clue, Ben Dubin has a YouTube channel where he posts videos like this one.
And Ben is also super engaged with traffic Twitter. Yes, there’s traffic Twitter. And most curious, he appears to be involved in multiple lawsuits. They’re very specific. One is a class action lawsuit challenging a $45 driver’s fee, a couple relate to Freedom of Information requests. For instance, he was trying to get a list of broken streetlights. He seems to really love prying information from the government’s filing cabinets.
Anyway, the point is that one stop sign desiring traffic vigilante can really gum up the works. He calls into the city to report every cracked sidewalk, every pothole, every missing street sign.
And while he doesn’t live in the town of Woodmere, he does go there at least once a month to visit his relatives. And that is when he noticed all of these intersections with no stop signs. This is a huge problem. There’s all these intersections without any stop sign.
But all the town saw was somebody who didn’t live there, who seemed to be a lawyer, requesting a ton of stop signs. They didn’t know his real intentions.