On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 12:14 -0600, John F. Eldredge wrote: > In the USA, all-way stop signs are used at intersections where all of > the roads in question have equal priority, and the expected traffic > volume is small enough that you won't have a large backlog of traffic > waiting to go through. From what you are saying, would Belgium always > give one of the roads the right-of-way, so that its traffic does not > have to stop, or would it always have an electric traffic signal at > such an intersection, regardless of how small the expected traffic > volume is? > The 'all way stop' is I think unique to North America, it does not exist in the UK and as far as I know does not exist in Europe. From my experience of driving in North America, the 'all way stop' is used in place where in Europe, and particularly the UK a mini-roundabout would be used in most of these cases. Otherwise a road would be assigned right of way.
Again in most of Western Europe, not the UK, a system giving priority to traffic from the right exists so many minor junctions have no road markings but the priority to the right rule exists. My experience is, I have no problem giving way but taking it took some time to master. In Europe when a stop sign is used, there is always a main road which has priority. Stop signs are much less common in the UK than North America, in most cases the minor road just has to give way sign, or in the UK just road markings on minor roads. Stop signs are relatively rare in the UK, they are generally only used where visibility is difficult. In other countries I find myself thinking, 'why the stop sign, I can see'. Hope this kind of bridges the understanding issues with this thread. Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
