The legislators in Harlem decided, speedily and with great self-inspired satisfaction, to immediately task city workers with replacing the red lights at every intersection along Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard with red lights three times their original size in hopes of deterring uptown-bound taxis from unceremoniously ignoring them when they saw no crossing traffic along the streets. After completing their work, the workers did not notice a decrease in such moving violations among taxicab drivers but instead observed a sudden increase in their illicit behavior.
One of the workers was asked to speak at a meeting of the policy makers, and when they asked her to testify, she merely imparted this:
“By making the red lights larger, we’ve made them easier to see.”
A particularly haughty politician responded with, “Well, that was the point! We called you here not to summarize our efforts but to provide insight into why these taxicab drivers continue to break the law.”
She replied, “The laws no one wants to follow are best left un-enlarged.”
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