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Then let's get the road designed that way. I'm onboard with the argument you're making about flow, but - and perhaps this is just me - traffic is safer when it'
by jjulius 5y ago
Then let's get the road designed that way. I'm onboard with the argument you're making about flow, but - and perhaps this is just me - traffic is safer when it's predictable.
Let's say you have a stop sign in your neighborhood that "everyone" rolling-stops through. Sure, great, let's look into changing that stop into maybe a yield, or a roundabout, or whathaveyou that safely allows for the flow that that street necessitates. But in the meantime? Stop at the stop sign! Yeah, sure, we can make the argument that the rolling stop is now "predictable" to everyone in the neighborhood, but what happens when you get an out-of-towner in front of you on your morning commute and you slack off on watching for them to stop, resulting in you rear-ending them?
Improving the flow of traffic is great, but ignoring rules for the sake of flow adds additional layers of unpredictability that ultimately result in roads that are less safe for drivers/pedestrians, at least IMO.