Re: [Winona] Tourists driving in Winona - to protect or neglect?

[Clay Templeton]

The people on this group are intelligent, observant, thinking people, and so many of us have learned the traffic rules just by reading these e-mails.  Randy & Steve, we may have just saved a life here. ;)  But if we were ignorant, so are much of the rest of the population and the tourists. What you don't know can hurt you, and in this case can hurt others. I had been told by more than one Winona native that streets going parallel to the river have the right-of-way, and that's how they drive.  Although I know that the driver's test covered meeting someone at a 4-way stop at the same time, I have no memory of it covering rights of way at uncontrolled intersections.  Maybe I got that one wrong.   I appreciated cnelson's comments about the intersections around Watkins. I was in an accident there last year; both of us were on wide, main roads, and on that _gray_ day with the _gray_ streets, neither of us saw the other's _gray_ car until we were already at the intersection going 30 mph.  She thought that the other direction had stop signs, and so did I. Maybe we should have been going 15 mph so that we could look for the _gray_ back sides of the stop signs instead.  They're pretty hard to see from the back side on most of our winter days.   To anyone who expects everyone else to be observant about whether or not *you* have a stop sign, I wish those gamblers good luck.  It seems like removing that uncertainty on busy streets would be a good thing for most of the population.   Clay Templeton   ----- Original Message -----