Wow. Do drivers of cars and trucks have to put their feet on the ground at stops signs and lights in Colorado?

I live in a very quiet residential neighborhood with hardly any cars, curving dead end clu de sacs and the like. DO I stop at all stop signs in the area - NO! Do I stop at all stop signs when going out to the main roads and when on the main roads - YES!! It is just common sense.

And, I live in CO, and at every stop sign you see auto drivers with their doors open and their feet down! Don't they do this in other states?

Thanks Denver for a bit of humor.

I hope, just a hope mind you, that those who are saying they don't have to stop at stop signs because they don't see car drivers putting a foot down are just engaging in some humor of their own. If they aren't it doesn't speak well to either their intellectual capacity or their respect for others on the road.



By the way, for me it all depends on where I am. If I am in my home neighborhood I always come to at least a standing stop and clear traffic all ways. On a busier roadway I come to a complete stop and put a foot down so the other traffic knows what I am doing. Since communication with other highway users is so important I don't use the allowed signaling with either hand option since most of them won't have a clue. I signal only with my left hand using standard signals.

Legally you need to stop, the wheels just need to stop, there is no requirement for waiting for any length of time. For a car to stop, look, proceed takes about 25 seconds, for a bicycle, the look often happens just before and during the stop, to stop, look proceed takes about .25 seconds, a lot of car drivers don't realise that it is possible for a bicycle to stop and proceed in a much shorter time. It may actually appear to a driver that a bicycle slowed down, but didn't stop.

One thing I think we need is a new sign.

1) First, the motor vehicle only stop. This would be a stop sign but would be red on the outside, but the word stop would be black with a yellow background. Motor vehicles would be required to stop, bicycles and pedestrians would be permitted to treat this as a yield. This would replace a lot of the political stop signs, but still allow the city or DOT to select which stop signs are applied which way. The existing white on red stop sign would still be a required stop for all users. The announcement of the new sign would have a PSA campaign so that everyone knows what it means.

I live in an area where every block there are stop signs, these vary in direction, so that you can't go more then 3 blocks without coming across a stop, this is because otherwise cars would go through there at 90km/h. As is anyone or anything walking along the street is in danger from cars that treat stop signs like the start lights at the drag strip.