I've been away from the blog for awhile and that was something I was trying to avoid. A few topics are upcoming, setting time aside to write is becoming harder find.
I've always been very civic minded, coming up with solutions that come from things that some may not necessarily see as problems. I'll get right to it then.
If I spoke with municipal managers, the first thing I would suggest would be placing speed-bumps at stop signs. My main concern isn't with people failing to yield to stop signs (although that is egregious), but rather motorists cutting the corner and crossing the stop block (the big solid white line running across the lane where your bumper is supposed to come to). I always pull right up to the stop block as one should, and for that I've often been looked at by folks making a left-hand turn that come across my lane. They've always struck me as the most clueless people, staring at me as if I am in the wrong, completely in my own lane, stopped at a stop sign. They on the other hand must believe they are correct, that the proper way to take a left-hand turn is by cutting as close as possible to the stop sign, and hence nearly into the front of my vehicle. And most people who cut the corner usually do so at break-neck speeds in order to make the light, or beat the oncoming traffic. So more to my point, if the stop block was raised by a speed-bump, a motorist who hit it would think before cutting the corner next time. Raised stop blocks would also make a motorist who ran a stop sign very aware that they had. This initiative therefore serves two purposes.
