Originally Posted by
flangehead
I will also say that in my view there are way too many stop signs in my area; I don't know about yours. Almost all those places where I don't stop, don't need a stop sign to begin with. The trend of putting in stop signs in residential areas to "slow down traffic" is particularly, well, stupid. The over-use of traffic signs habituates road users to ignoring them.
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Presuming a 4-way intersection, what else is there that can be used aside from stop signs? I do agree that there seem to be more use of stop signs at all 3 corners of 3-way intersections (T-intersections), which seems a bit overkill.