1527 Road Noise

Saw a couple of interesting road signs the other day. The first was one of those temporary mounted-on-a-trailer signs with lights that can be programmed to say pretty much whatever you want—as long as you say it in the right number of letters.
That limitation may have been in play. I'll give the city workers the benefit of the doubt. They may have actually known how to spell and simply made the best of space restrictions.
In any event, the sign blinked once and said, "Road Closed." Then it blinked again and said, "Business are Open." I believe that's Business-es are Open. Those two extra letters make all the difference.
Then again, if the road was closed the businesses probably wouldn't be open for long. The road in question was certainly not pedestrian friendly, what with bulldozers, graders, and other construction paraphernalia.
Maybe the sign had started out saying businesses are open and there's only one left. Maybe it sells stuff for off-road motorcycles or something.
Still, if it are open the sentence are not correct.
The other sign was an example of bureaucratese, the govspeak we all know and love. It was identifying a federal freeway project whose purpose appears to be to reduce the amount of noise from the freeway to the residents who bought property next to the freeway long after the freeway was built. This sign said "Noise Mitigation Project"
The project itself was making a huge amount of noise.
But the word mitigation? My thesaurus gives as synonyms for mitigation; alleviation, lessening, and easing. All of which appear to signify a tepid result for this project. You wonder if they were afraid to come right out and say "noise reduction."
Nothing worse than a road project that doesn't make the grade.
America, ya gotta love it.