No Truck Turn. Gardiner, NY. June 2022.

Found during a recent detour thru the hamlet of Gardiner. The folks on this corner, placed some cones, surveyors tape and this handmade sign, in hopes that a delivery truck or tractor trailer wouldn’t take out the signs, trees or hedges on a residential road.

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