Jul132010
Proposal for a hybrid stop/yield sign brings good discussion
Filed under transportation by david brooks at 7:41 am
A slide from Gary Lauder's talk
My Telegraph column this week is about a proposal to develop a new traffic sign that would be a cross between a yield and a stop sign, so you don’t have to stop when nobody’s around (wasting gas) but have direction of how to proceed when others are there (unlike a four-way yield sign, which wouldn’t work).
Here’s the column. Check the reader comments at the end - they’re a good example of intelligent online discussion, with only a little “it’s all those Massholes!” type foolishness that tends to make too many comment sections unreadable.
July 13th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I think this could work in New Hampshire. Of course, living in a small town where impolite driving isn’t likely to be anonymous, I may have a biased view of drivers. Still, I don’t see many drivers in the area that use aggressive driving techniques.
July 29th, 2010 at 3:42 am
this is how I drive already, I rarely slow below 10mph if there aren’t cars around, they really should be stoptional, or based on traffic