Editor:
With regularity we get to see letters about how nonchalantly drivers treat stop signs. Hardly ever do we hear an alternative view.
Anyone who has ever driven outside of North America knows that stop signs everywhere else are put up sparingly.
Here in Canada I have seen stop signs in the middle of nowhere where two moose trails cross. I have seen stop signs in quiet neighbourhoods with minimal traffic. In subdivisions that are being built, stop signs are in place even before the first house is finished. Whatever happened to the yield sign? Whatever happened to the rule that if two vehicles meet at an intersection the one on the right has the right of way? Stop signs should only be put up where there is sufficient traffic and they actually mean something.
The indiscriminate use of stop signs in North America has led to too much familiarity. And that, as we all know by now, has led to contempt.
Klaus Blume, Gibsons
