Imagine heaven, there are no annoying stop-signs.
Nowadays this is unimaginable, but lets presume.
One has to design a sign in order to satisfy a group of “brightlights”
This is how it would have worked :

Nightowl - 28 July 2008 12:20 AM

Imagine heaven, there are no annoying stop-signs.

cant believe John Lennon left that one out

I advised him to do so, but he had to rewrite that part :-(

Nightowl - 28 July 2008 12:20 AM

Imagine heaven, there are no annoying stop-signs.

When I lived in Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada, the city council thought they would save money by not putting stop signs at every intersection. They called these uncontrolled intersections “courtesy corners” and the first vehicle to arrive was to have right-of-way and if two arrived simultaneously one was supposed to be courteous and give way. Nice theory.

In practice, too many people assumed right-of-way and when the inevitable collision happened, out came tire irons, screwdrivers, knives and so on. More folks were injured in the after-fight than in the collisions.

On the upside, if I drove carefully I could get from home to work in just under 10 minutes versus more than a half hour using the controlled road with the rest of the lemmings.

oldwilli