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   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:38:16 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   > speed bumps can be a huge problem for emergency vehicles and also snow   
   > plows if you live in a colder climate.   
      
   That's not the problem here, in the Silicon Valley.   
      
   The only reason they put those idiotic stops signs out   
   here is to slow down or to inconvenience traffic.   
      
   Again, look at my one example (and if we need more, I can   
   post them) at GPS coordinates 37.291379,-121.958411   
      
   There is absolutely no argument one can make that sustains   
   a logical use of 3 stop signs at that location. At most,   
   1 is needed (on the dead-end side road).   
      
   It's clear to me that stop sign was placed by people who   
   wished to slow down or inconvenience traffic on the   
   main road.   
      
   However, there are legal ways to slow down traffic.   
   1. Speed limit signs   
   2. Speed bumps   
   3. Traffic quieting road markings   
   etc.   
      
   Use of a stop sign to slow down traffic is an illegal   
   use of a stop sign. I'm not saying the stop sign was   
   placed without having legal procedures - I'm just saying   
   the guys who followed those legal procedures broke the   
   law when they placed those signs, because the JUSTIFICATION   
   for a stop sign could not have been met.   
      
   Therefore, they had no respect for the law (just as Simitian   
   has no respect for the law) when they made that law.   
      
   So, were I to get a ticket for cruising through that   
   stop sign, I would argue that stop sign deserved no   
   respect.   
      
   Even the NHTSA says so.   
      
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