Ah... Not really everyone else. They are put in place at
intersections that are too busy for people to be able to exit the side
streets, but not so busy as to warrant a traffic signal or a
roundabout (which many americans cannot use effectively!)
The way that it works is that everyone stops when they get to the stop
bar (fat white line across the road), and if a vehicle immediately to
your right was already stopped, then they go first. Ideally it is
strict alternation in a clockwise manner. Of course when you get
several vehicles arrive at different signs at the same time, fun
ensues... If the drivers are all really polite everyone waits for
everyone else to go first, and if they are really impolite they play
bumper cars... Mixed degrees of politeness seem to work out OK.
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John W Reames
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On Jun 11, 2010, at 0:06, Hendrik and Fay <heni...@ozemail.com.au>
wrote:
I don't understand all this American stuff, like the 4 way stop
sign, what the
flying fudge is that all about, everybody gives way to everybody?
However on a brighter note I found my first round about today, ohh
what bliss
until I figured out it went anti clockwise, here we go again. oooh
and my
personal favourite, red indicators, I am going to take a fn hammer
to every red
indicator I come across, what insanity, how did you people ever
mange to put man
into space, oooh yah that's right you got a German to do it. And
what do the
Germans use for indicators? Same as the Ozzies and every other
normal nation that
has also embraced the metric system.
Hendrik
who is seriously thinking about an early ticket home, I have seen
enough
On Thu Jun 10 20:46 , Walt Zarnoch <zarnoch...@gmail.com> sent:
My truck has over 130 miles difference between the clock and the
signed
title, and hasn't been put on the road again yet. I guess in a
karma sense
it makes up for all the time it was at stoplights since 88?
Walt, who realy needs to get those damn brakes done...
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