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Communities could save a good chunk of money on unnecessary traffic signs. Driving around I'm amazed at the number of signs that don't even need to be there as they provide info that anyone should have learned in drivers education. "no left turn on red", "right turn on red after stop", "left turn yield on green", are but a few. Not only would it save money but it would remove some clutter, the signs are getting out of control.
I disagree about the OP's choice of unnecessary signs. All of those described represent exceptions to what would normally be the rule. "No right turn on red" means it normally permissible to turn right on red, but not at this particular intersection, where it is prohibited. "Left turn yield on green" informs motorists that there is a green facing the other direction, too, which is not necessarily the case.
Intersections come in all sorts of configurations, and one cannot assume that the same rules apply the same to all of them.
I do think there are way too many signs on rural highways. Every half mile there is a sign telling you not to pass a stopped school bus, or bridges ice before roads, or lights on when raining, or something that is obvious.
I think stop signs could be abolished at residential interactions where both streets are of equal importance. A general blanket rule "Yield to traffic from left" would cover every situation. But too many people wouldn't, so I guess we have to have them.
Even with all of the signs, there are still horrible drivers out there that don't know the basic rules of driving. I am amazed at how there are people that still don't know what having the right-of-way means. The drivers making u-turns where there is a sign that says no u-turns really peeve me.
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You still see way too many people that can't seem to read the signs that are there~ maybe if the drivers obeyed the rules of the road they wouldn't need so many of them.
So if you see a sign and someone that is not obeying it thats the guy responsable for the sign being there!
Y'know, I wouldn't mind if they abolished the speed limit signs ...
Naturally, that's not going to happen (too much revenue at stake), not to mention in today's gridlocked freeways, the numbers don't mean squat when one's bumper-to-bumper anyways. But even when Montana abolished the speed limit, the reality is that folks weren't going flat-out at triple-digit speeds. IIRC, the difference was 2 mph from before the abolishment.
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