The politically correct bureaucracy in action

For the last couple of years along the Merritt Parkway and Hutchinson River Parkway in Connecticut and New York they have been redoing the rest areas. There is no doubt they needed a facelift, but one wonders given the condition of many roads if that should have been a top priority.

In any case, these rest areas are very close to the highway, there are limited parking spaces and little room to maneuver. The buildings are all new; devoting most of the space to a Subway and convenience store. The rest rooms, which for most people are the main cause for a stop I would assume, are tiny. The stalls are small and the women have only two, the same as the men which results in women waiting in line out the door. Can that be anything but dumb when a complete redo presented the opportunity for more space?

The outside is worse. The gas pumps are in the middle of the parking area and cause traffic jams routinely, but it gets better.

Several of the limited parking spaces are consumed with politically correct parking, in addition to handicap spaces. For example:

Then there are my favorite spaces, there are four of them. You guessed it, electric care charging stations. I have no idea how long one must sit there charging a car, but most of the time these valuable spaces are empty, reserved for cars that are few in number.

The limited parking (especially after you net the places you can’t park if you are the only person in the car, it’s not high-efficiency and you use gasoline and are not disabled) causes many drivers to simply park where there are no designated spaces thereby showing the bureaucrats how stupid they are.

I wonder if these same planners were hired to design the Obamacare administrative systems?