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American roads look really unfamiliar to someone from the UK. You stop a lot! So many stop signs.
by monk_e_boy 10y ago
American roads look really unfamiliar to someone from the UK. You stop a lot! So many stop signs.
- acchow 10y agoYeah, we don't really have roundabouts or yield signs at intersections. Though, in SF there's enough cars and pedestrians that I'm not sure either of those would be faster anyway.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agoThat's what you get when the local concerned mothers association sends a weekly flood of crap to the local politicians and newspaper about how "cars go too fast on a particular road... something something, think of the children". How much of that crap is present varies a lot from city to city and town to town. Generally speaking, the poorer the town and the lower the population density the fewer "resident sponsored improvements" to traffic flow you'll see.
- greeneggs 10y agoThere isn't really any planning. San Francisco never removes stop signs, but just adds them steadily as neighborhoods request them. Eventually they are turned into traffic lights. (I imagine "traffic signals installed" must be a performance metric for someone.) A downside of having stop signs at almost every corner is that drivers seem to forget how to drive in areas without them. They assume that if they approach an intersection without a stop sign then they can drive through it at full speed, instead of looking for cross traffic and pedestrians.