Some new driver or out-of-towner is really going to bite it if the other traffic thinks everyone sees all the stop signs at one particular 4-way stop.
There's a big tree just literally feet from a sign. You don't see it until you're right up on it. You have to know it's there to start slowing down, and it's at the bottom of a sloped street.
Here's what I mean (and sorry for the crappy camera pics - I pretty much wasn't aiming, just click, click, clicked...and hoped the sign/tree were in frame).
Here it is one street away:
Half way there, you don't see it at all:
If you know it's there, you can see the edge of the sign behind the tree
(Click on the pic to make it bigger...you'll see what I mean):
When you reach the corner property, you finally see it...but if you haven't already slowed down for it...
...then you're right on top of it.
2 comments:
Uh, excuse me missy. The Road Warrior knows a residential intersection when she sees one. Perhaps if you were driving the speed limit you wouldn't have to slam on your brakes. If the weather is inclement you should be driving even slower ;-)
Didn't say I don't crawl through there, and I never have to "slam on the brakes"...but some day, somebody who doesn't realize there's gonna be a "stop" instead of the interspersed "yields" - they are gonna do some damage.
Even with all those intersections that have either a yield or stop at each, the speed limit is 35 even though there's never been a sign from either direction since I've lived here (11 years). However, there's one not far from there on the street that's crossing it.
I usually don't do more than 20 anyhow, because very close to there is a park, school, and lots of ankle biters running around that are too young to go to school yet. And ya just never know. ;)
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