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Because the mentality is to stop, look, and wait for it to be clear, rather than stop and immediately just go. Stop and immediately go is particularly a proble
by mikepurvis 5y ago
Because the mentality is to stop, look, and wait for it to be clear, rather than stop and immediately just go.
Stop and immediately go is particularly a problem for less visible road users like pedestrians and cyclists.
- cortesoft 5y agoNot sure how that would work where I am from… there are so many cars, the one direction that didn’t have the stop sign would be constantly full and the other three directions would just sit there.
- mikepurvis 5y agoAn intersection that busy should just be a traffic light though. All of these other measures are for managing flow at intersections where natural gaps exist and can be leveraged.
- bombcar 5y agoOr the speed reduced - you can handle a lot of traffic at an unsignaled intersection of both roads are slow enough. It’s when there’s a huge speed differential and no signaling that it becomes a problem as traffic gets higher.
- cortesoft 5y agoThese are in residential neighborhoods, and stop signs help prevent people from speeding, as well.