Originally Posted by
skye
Either the OP is whack, or he's trying to make a clever reverse play on the motorist's off-cited plaint on cyclists who feel the need to fly through intersections without stopping. In which case the OP is both unfunny AND whack. And there's no mention of traffic signals, so that's unfunny, whack and imprecise. Hat trick of useless.
if motorists stopped at stop signs, it would be funny or whack or unfunny or whatever you're trying to say it would be. I think that the compliance of motorists with stop signs is somewhat overstated. What they do here is slow down, and if they see cross traffic they stop. This works great unless someone is on a bicycle or is walking, in which case it's an accident waiting to happen. I noticed in New Jersey that they had moved some stop signs further back from the intersection since the last time I had taken that route. I'm guessing they think that helps get people to stop, but I don't know.