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Neil Ellwood wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:14:32 +1300, Your Name wrote:
>> In article , Arif Khokar
>> wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2014 03:02 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>> > The signs are almost certainly there for a reason
>>>
>>> Rather than try to determine what the reason is, you just assert that
>>> it's there for a "reason" I could put a stop sign up myself at some
>>> arbitrary intersection and you'll still come along and say that stop
>>> sign is there for a reason.
>>>
>>> That doesn't really lend credence to your position.
>>
>> I don't have to "determine what the reason is". I couldn't care less
>> where they put Stop signs, and it doesn't even remotely change the FACT
>> that the law says to stop at one, whether selfish pig-headed morons like
>> it or not.
>>
>> The damn things aren't that cheap, so they don't go around just sticking
>> one wherever they feel like it. There *IS* a reason - if you want to
>> know what it is, then go and ask the people in charge of putting it
>> there.
> In the UK there are two differing signs. One is a stop sign that is
> compulsory to stop at and the other is a give way sign where other traffic
> has the right of way but if there is no other traffic there is no need to
> stop.
In theory, we have that as well. We call them Stop and Yield. However,
Stop signs outnumber Yield signs by about 10,000 to 1.
Around here, every single intersection has either a light or a stop
sign.
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