In a post on [Bikies] Bikes, cars and stop signs on 26 Apr 2008,
Mitchell Nussbaum wrote:
motorists tend to treat stop
signs as "emphatic yield" signs
Has anyone noticed that, in Madison at least, there seems to have been
a devaluation of traffic signs? What I mean is that I don't know where
I've seen an actual yield sign, while many intersections that clearly
merit only a yield sign, if anything, sport a stop sign. Take the
intersection of Virginia Terrace and Rugby Row as a case in point.
Southbound Virginia Terrace traffic has a stop, even though the number
of vehicles entering Virginia Terrace from Rugby Row must be only a
few an hour. I haven't sat there to count, but I've rarely even seen
other traffic on that road.
We all know that people's ability in general to follow any kind of
instructions is approximate; but are traffic engineers falling prey to
the relativity of meaning in the vain hope of relative compliance? "I
know nobody's going to stop at this intersection anyway; but we do
want them to slow down and look for traffic, so let's put up a stop
sign, to be sure they'll at least see there's an intersection."
Richard
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