STOP!

Can anyone tell me what the hell is up with Your Nation's Capital employing crossing guards to regulate intersections - such as Constitution and K - that have perfectly functional traffic lights?

These folks in the yellow vests like to stand among the traffic, blowing their eardrum-piercing whistles for no good reason, and telling people to start walking after they've already started walking because the light that tells them to start walking turned green.

Meanwhile, they are standing in the middle of an intersection, either slowing traffic down or just waiting to do their best Raggedy Ann impersonation thanks to the hood of a Honda Civic.