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I love it. I cant begin to count the number of times that I have had a near collision because the driver at the intersection ignored the stop sign. |
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The speed bumps would mess up a lot of fancy sports cars with low ground clearance. I would be against this, except that it would mostly only affect old rich people in Corvettes and young rich people in riced up Hondas. |
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[-] because I'm against any road safety measure that punishes the guilty as well as the innocent. There are other ways to enforce compliance with stops signs that don't involve me riding a concrete rollercoaster to work. |
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This would alleviate my worries that there's a stop sign hidden behind a tree branch. |
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DocBrown: Given that you are required to actually stop at Stop signs, I don't see how this punishes *anyone*. Except those breezing through at speed, maybe. |
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I like the rumble strips they've installed in front of the tolls around here - maybe use those ahead of the stop sign. |
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It punishes you [DrC] (and me and everyone else) by forcing you to go over a nasty uncomfortable bump, irrespective of whether you were stopping or not. These bumps are barely noticeable in some cars I grant you, but in others they're a major annoyance. I speak from my position in the latter camp! |
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I have encountered stop signs with rumble strips in front of them. Rather nasty for bicyclists, since the rumble strips in question had about a 6" pitch. A nice approach might be to have several sets of rumble strips on the approach to the stop sign, with different pitches so that the further-out ones were only audible at higher speeds. |
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DocBrown: so use custard speed bumps (see link). |
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Custard. Wouldn't have it any other way. |
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I heard of a case in Derby UK where
someone successfully forced the local
council to remove all its speed bumps
on the basis that they contravened a
old law that stated 'nothing shall be
done to the road surface which would
cause it to become irregular or broken'
(or something like that). It was
apparently brought in about the time of
the public health act to prevent damage
to sewers and water supplies. |
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excerpt from the link above. I remember this story
from TV. It was said that the speed bump on the
road
caused a speeder to loose control. Sadly a girl died. |
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The judge said Berner exercised poor judgment that
day in May 2008 by driving on a road close to her
home at a speed of about 91 kilometres an hour in a
50 km/h zone and ignoring speed bumps. |
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