Originally Posted by Blue Order
I've changed my mind about stop signs; I now agree that the law should allow cyclists to treat them as yield signs.
Probably 80% or more of stop signs are implemented as a traffic calming measure, they are political rather then engineering based. The problem is that while it would be valid to treat political ones as yields, it's not always a good idea to treat engineering based ones as yields. There is no way, from the sign to tell the difference, mind you drivers often ignore them as well.