{"id":1698,"date":"2025-04-09T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:04:34","slug":"new-city-signs-tell-drivers-how-fast-their-car-can-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"New city signs tell drivers how fast their car can go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SignsPic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SignsPic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1699\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SignsPic.jpg 239w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SignsPic-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The city has installed new digital signs around the city in various locations to tell drivers what top speeds their vehicles can achieve.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new signs have been a big hit with local motor enthusiasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Markham, age 22, of Windsor was pleased to tell friends and family just how fast his 2006 Toyota Camry can go \u201cI got it up to 92 on Ypres the other day!\u00a0 My friends said it wouldn\u2019t go over 80kms an hour and I sure proved them wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 The sign flashed and changed from the number to the words \u2018TOO FAST\u2019 and I thought that was amazing.\u00a0 It was like it was saying &#8216;TOO COOL&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be great if the sign said &#8216;TOO FURIOUS&#8217; after that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked if he had any complaints about the new speed-signs Mr. Markham did have some thoughts \u201cThe sign looks like it only goes up to 99kms.\u00a0\u00a0 If I get a car someday that goes over 99 I\u2019d like to know how fast it is actually going.\u00a0\u00a0 Other thing is it very difficult to take a picture of the sign when you\u2019re driving.\u00a0\u00a0 I tried to take a pic a bunch of times but I had to let go of the steering wheel to get a decent shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The city has installed new digital signs around the city in various locations to tell drivers what top speeds their vehicles can achieve.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new signs have been a big hit with local motor enthusiasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news","tag-whatsupwindsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}