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   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:14:32 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I agree with you but disagree with you a tiny bit.   
   a. There is certainly a "reason", I agree.   
   b. The signs are not cheaper than the "correct" approach.   
      
   The town traffic engineer already spoke to me about this.   
   He didn't know the "reason"; but he knew the facts of the case.   
   He also told me that, today, they'd use "quieting" methods.   
      
   The traffic engineer told me that, in the 90s, the neighborhood   
   was given a "survey" and that the town council voted to approve   
   the stop signs. We also know that no engineering study was ever   
   performed. We also can assume, based on our intimate knowledge of   
   that intersection, that, IMHO, there's absolutely no way that   
   a traffic study could possibly warrant the signs being there.   
      
   We are left to guess as to the "reason", but, like all political   
   corruption, this seems clear to me as merely the illegal   
   application of the wrong law for the wrong purpose.   
      
   Had they performed traffic quieting procedures, it would have   
   likely cost FAR more than putting up two signs (e.g., speed   
   bumps, enforcement overtime, artificial medians, artificial   
   striping, etc.).   
      
   In other words, the wrong approach was far cheaper than the   
   correct approach.   
      
   And, the only reason the wrong approach works, is that most   
   people are, IMHO, mindless sheep who wouldn't know a legally   
   emplaced STOP sign from an illegally emplaced one if it hit   
   them on the head.   
      
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