Adaptable Roadside-Alert Signs

Roger Knights Signs that warn drivers about temporary no-parking zones, roadwork ahead, tire-chains needed, etc. are currently hard-coded. That is, their messages are painted onto the signs easel. This unfortunately means that a large inventory of signs must be maintained in order to have enough on hand to meet the highest possible demand for each message. (For instance, if a parade is scheduled, hundreds of temporary No Parking signs are needed along its route ahead of time.) But signs could be made that are adaptable, or soft-coded, so that any easel could display whatever message is needed at the moment. To do this, the front of each easel would have a lockable transparent sleeve glued onto it that could contain any message, printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic. (The existing message would be painted-over first.) If this were done, it seems to me (an utter outsider) that the following advantages would accrue:
1. Far fewer easels would be needed. Thus, instead of needing a

bulky easel for each of a multitude of different situations, easels would be all-purpose devices. So the number of bulky and relatively expensive easels needed could be cut by as much as 90%, considerably reducing both sign-acquisition and storage costs.
2. The deployment of roadside signs to flag emergency situations

could be achieved more quickly, since easels and all possible inserts could be spread around the jurisdiction, nearer to where theyd be needed, primarily inside rented storage-locker lots. (This is possible because far fewer easels would need to be stored.) Crews wouldnt have to trek to an often-distant signinventory building, or call for a distant driver. (If an extraordinarily large number of easels were needed in any particular location, workers could access the next-nearest depot as a backup.)
3. Such depots would ordinarily be unmanned by the jurisdictions

employees, which would reduce costs.

4. More situation-specific and helpful messages could be posted.

Thats because a quick-print shop (or an in-house wide-format laser printer) could produce context-tailored messages on paper or plastic on short notice. For instance, such ad hoc signs could specify the applicable dates and hours of the day for temporary No Parking signs.