On 10/27/2010 08:26 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/10/27 <j...@jfeldredge.com>: >> I have never seen a stop sign at a railroad crossing. Buses are required by >> law to stop before a railroad crossing, and open the bus door so that the >> driver can better hear if a train is approaching. Some other commercial >> vehicles routinely stop as well, but private vehicles aren't required to >> stop. >> >> If there is a jurisdiction that places stop signs at each railroad crossing, >> I would be interested in learning where it is. > > > really I don't see the point of this discussion anymore: I already > question the benefit of tagged stop signs in general, as a stop sign > itself requires very few seconds of travel time, while a unregulated > crossing with a lot of traffic from the right might require a lot > more, it all depends merely on traffic density (which itself is quite > dependent on the time). But why should we conduct research on > "jurisdiction that places stop signs at each railroad crossing" or > stuff like this? Is our way of mapping stop signs (or better the > "requirement to stop") depending on this?
Where I'm at, most of the streets AND avenues are numbered away from downtown Tulsa, and we're far enough that any three-digit street looks about the same as any three-digit avenue that nobody bothers to remember them unless they happen to have an address on it. Instead, you're likely to get directions like "Turn right after the truck stop and turn left at the second stop sign" from someone. Being one of the few landmarks actually visible from the street far enough in advance to actually navigate by in the woods, yield and stop signs often end up as navigational reference by themselves.
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