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Originally Posted by Windguy
{sarcasm}Isn’t just annoying how cyclists think yielding at intersections and not coming to a complete stop is OK, but motorists always come to a complete stop and lock their brakes at stop signs?{/sarcasm}
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Sarcasm noted and appreciated.
Personally, I think coming to an absolute complete stop at a stop sign with no one around is a total waste of time, does nothing to improve safety, and as stated above, not practiced by most drivers of anything with wheels.
I also think 90% of the stop signs on MMPs should be yield signs---they are being treated that way anyway.
That being said, the yield signs should be
STRICTLY OBEYED. Want to guess the number one cause of all accidents???? That's right, it is
FAILURE TO YIELD THE RIGHT OF WAY.
There are many great examples:
*****On the BV MMP headed north from the Hillsborough gate, you round the curve and have the option of going straight or making a left to go through the tunnel to get to Hendry. There have been severe accidents and many near misses because the person making the left to the tunnel fails to yield to the southbound cart. Because it is only a 30 degree left turn, many think they are going straight and not turning left. They need a sign similar to that by the tunnel under Morse at Saratoga that states "left hand turn yield to straight traffic"
*****Just about any RB as you round towards your exit, a pack of 30 cyclists will blow through the yield sign right in front of you as a single entity. I love to see their faces as I pull up to 3 feet short of them as I lean on the horn. It's like "who, me? I was just playing follow the leader"
*****Then of course , there is the perennial nightmare of the Morse/Paige Pl. RB
*****The tendency of other cart drivers on roads with a cart lane to run right through a stop sign of a side street to get in front of you (and then usually crawl at 13 mph)
*****Then there's the drivers and cyclists who don't bother to stop or yield when exiting a tunnel. This applies to the occasional car that exits a tunnel on a MMP as well
And there's plenty more like this
Bottom line I rather see rolling stops at stop signs than failure to yield when required.