On Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 1:59:23 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 4/8/2021 11:00 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:

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Other safety inflation: our local politicians are sure that if a
yield sign is required, a stop sign is even safer. As a result yield
signs are found only in roundabouts, where the politicians had enough
sense to let road designers choose the signs. So every stop sign is
presumed to be a yield sign if the driver can't see evidence to the
contrary, and we are left on our own to evaluate each intersection
with no help from the signs.
Where I grew up Yield signs were common at Tee intersections. I looked
at Google Maps and indeed they have been changed to Stop Signs. But in
the Bay Area many Tee intersections have no sign at all; the cars going
across the top of the Tee don't stop even though technically everyone
should stop at an uncontrolled intersection.

O.K., note safety de-inflation -- our stop signs are yield signs for bicycles. https://tinyurl.com/74zhejxc And when I do stop, cars don't know what to do. It's like an episode of Portlandia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpd...ab_channel=IFC

-- Jay Beattie.