XPost: misc.legal, ca.driving, ba.transportation   
   From: scharf.steven@geemail.com   
      
   On 3/14/2014 5:56 PM, David Kaye wrote:   
   > "Arif Khokar"  wrote   
   >   
   >> It makes far more sense to designated one road as the minor one and post   
   >> yield signs for that road only at the intersection.   
   >   
   > Most communities DO designate one street as the main and put stops only on   
   > the lesser street.  The trick, of course, is that the designated main street   
   > has to be consistent for many blocks, but this has often been taken care of   
   > in the original street design anyway.  Many cities create a main   
   > thoroughfare every 8 blocks (1 mile) or so.   
      
   The reason for the stop signs in question is not to control traffic   
   between the intersecting streets, so yield signs would not achieve anything.   
      
   The reasons for the stop signs are a) to control speed on LLewellyn, and   
   b) to encourage drivers to not use Latimer and Llewellyn as a route to   
   the Campbell post office and as a bypass to the intersection of Hamilton   
   and Winchester. There is also a community health care facility on   
   LLewellyn, Eastfield Ming Quong, so that's another reason why they don't   
   want speeding on that street.   
      
   The bottom line is that they could install some other sort of traffic   
   calming on that street in lieu of the stop signs if they wanted to spend   
   the money and if there was sufficient space. But yield signs would not   
   achieve the result the city is seeking.   
      
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