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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Mon Apr 21 09:33:39 2014, in response to Re: A a Vision Zero Town Hall Meeting, posted by BrooklynBus on Sat Apr 19 11:07:25 2014. Highway entrances tend not to be signed correctly, especially in NYC, in my opinion.If there is ample acceleration room, you should have a "Merge" sign, perhaps with the whole picture of two lines converging into one. That's it. And if even that! I can't stand it when they put "yield" signs at highway entrances. I've even seen yield signs where you don't have to merge!!! Yield means you have to find a clearing in traffic. It really means "stop" unless it's all clear. It should only be used at intersections, never on highways. If there is little acceleration room, then there should be a special warning sign that is neither a stop sign or a yield sign. Something like: "Quick merge: be prepared to stop if necessary." You should never be forced to stop at the nonsensical point that you are at some NYC highway entrances, namely before you are parallel to the highway (such as the BQE at Atlantic). That's crazy because you not only have to calculate the possibility of a car coming but also how fast you can accelerate to get in front of it. I would go so far as to say that even traffic on the highway in the right lane should receive a warning sign saying that traffic is merging. Perhaps even the automatic right of way should be removed and the sign should say, "merge with entering traffic." So in summary: there should be no yield signs on highways. Only merge signs in ordinary circumstances and special "quick merge" signs that are also given to the right lane so that the merge is cooperative and not solely the burden of the entering traffic. But as long as NYC and other places treat highway entrances as intersections, with signs such as "stop" and "yield" that should only be used at intersections, it's never going to work out well. |
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