They just won't change their stripes

Well; they'll change some, but not the important ones. While rant mode is in full operation, let's just report that, for the third time in under a year, the City has repainted the center line on the street in front of our house. It's easy to tell that it's new, because it's bright and because it has been smeared already by people crossing over it before it was dry. Why the striping? Again? When it has been years since the dangerous pedestrian crosswalk a couple of blocks away has been repainted? It's so dim as not to be there at all for any practical purpose. The obliterated features include the lines at which people are supposed to stop, but don't.