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	Traffic - Sign & Marking
		We have found that most stop sign requests are generated by citizens with a genuine concern for traffic and pedestrian safety, who believe that the installation of stop signs would solve many traffic safety problems.
		The State of California regulates the installation of stop signs for the primary purpose of assigning right-of-way at intersections.
		When stop signs are installed where the need to control right-of-way is questionable, there would be an increase in traffic delay and congestion with little or no gain in safety.
	www.sanjoseca.gov /transportation/traffic_signsmarkings.htm (705 words)

	Stop sign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In these countries it is not uncommon for stop signs to be erected on all three or four intersecting roads.
		Stop signs are installed mainly for safety reasons and/or to assign right-of-way for a certain direction.
		If two drivers stop simultaneously at stop signs at a single intersection, the general rule is that the car on the right has the right of way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stop_sign (1415 words)

	Wikinfo \| Stop sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A stop sign is a traffic sign, usually erected at road junctions, that instructs drivers to make a brief and temporary, but complete, stop upon reaching it, and then to proceed only if the way ahead is clear.
		If two drivers stop simultaneously at stop signs at a single intersection, the rule is that the car on the right-hand side, or the most counterclockwise, has the right of way.
		Stop signs may be augmented with additional information such as a plate with the legend "4-way stop".
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Stop_sign (876 words)

	Stop Signs & More - Stop Signs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		HIP stop signs are ideal for controlling vehicle traffic on public roads and in medium to large parking lots and garages.
		HIP stop signs are ideal for controlling vehicle traffic in parking lots and garages open to the public.
		A 30" stop sign is the conventional size recommended by the federal government for use on public roads.
	www.stopsignsandmore.com /Products.aspx?catID=33 (418 words)

	Stop Sign History
		The sign shall be mounted so to be visible for a minimum distance determined by the 85th percentile approach speed; at a minimum height of 5 or 7 feet and offset from the traveled way a distance appropriate for the specific location.
		Larger sign sizes and different offsets are a part of the engineering study and design process that is required prior to installation.
		Stop signs have come a long way since the early days, but their familiar color, shape and size, provide Americans, and the world with a cost-efficient, and reasonably secure and safe means of intersection traffic control.
	signalfan.freeservers.com /stopsign.htm (689 words)

	Interpretation of a Stop Sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stop at the stop sign, say "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, king of the universe, who hast given us thy commandment to stop," wait 3 seconds according to his watch, and then proceed.
		A divinity professor notices that there is no stop sign on Mark street but there is one on Matthew and Luke streets, and concludes that the ones on Luke and Matthew streets are both copied from a sign on a completely hypothetical street called "Q".
		There is an excellent 300 page discussion of speculations on the origin of these stop signs and the differences between the stop signs on Matthew and Luke street in the scholar's commentary on the passage.
	paul.merton.ox.ac.uk /language/stopsign.html (950 words)

	Stop Signs - Street Signs USA
		Stop sign posts and hardware (2 standard bolts/nuts required per sign) sold separately.
		These economical stop signs are 3/64 inch thick flat non-reflective steel and sprayed with a polyester powder coated paint and baked on.
		Stop signs are.080 inch thick flat aluminum with high intensity reflective sheeting applied over the surface.
	www.street-signs-usa.com /6/cat6.htm (381 words)

	Stop sign - Uncyclopedia
		When one saw a stop sign, one would depress the brake pedal as hard as possible, pull the steering wheel hard to one side, and curse out the window at whomever was around.
		The average stop sign is 2 to 4 meters tall, consisting of an octagon placard made of metal or papyrus, on a long metal or wooden stick.
		Stop signs prefer open ranges near highways where they can gather fresh kill.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Stop_sign (381 words)

	Stop Signs
		A stop sign is one of our most valuable and effective control devices when used at the right place and under the right conditions.
		Signs placed on major and collector streets for the purpose of speed reduction are the most flagrantly violated.
		Stop signs are are not warranted in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) as an effective measure to reduce speeding.
	www.rfcity.org /Eng/Information/StopSigns.htm (786 words)

	Exegesis of a Stop Sign
		A New Testament scholar notices that there is no stop sign on Mark street but there is one on Matthew and Luke streets, and concludes that the ones on Luke and Matthew streets are both copied from a sign on a completely hypothetical street called "Q".
		A liberal Mennonite understands the meaning of the sign to be to stop and stay there until death, but also knows that it may have been meant for someone else in another culture.
		A conservative Mennonite understands the meaning of the sign to be to stop and stay until death.
	members.aol.com /zimlechem/Stopsign.html (1123 words)

	Advanced Multimedia Processing Lab -- Projects -- Stop Sign Detection
		An automatic stop sign detector could help reduce the number of missed stop sign detections by automatically detecting the stop signs and either informing the driver of the upcoming sign via an audio or visual signal or deploying an automatic braking system that safely slows the vehicle’s speed.
		To determine if the automatic stop sign detector benefits drivers, we had 43 people watch 60 video sequences taken from a forward-looking vehicle mounted camera and asked them to press a button as soon as they detected a stop sign in the video sequence.
		For half of the trials, the output of the stop sign detector was available and for the other half of the trials it was not.
	amp.ece.cmu.edu /projects/stopSignDetection (802 words)

	When Encountering a STOP Sign...
		A preacher might look up "STOP" in his lexicons of English and discover that it can mean either: 1) something which prevents motion, such as a plug for a drain, or a block of wood that prevents a door from closing; or 2) a location where a train or bus lets off passengers.
		A Reform Jew sees the stop sign, and coasts up to it while contemplating the question "Do I personally feel commanded to stop?" During this internal process he edges into the intersection and is hit from behind by a car driven by a secular Jew who ignored the sign completely.
		A NT scholar notices that there is no stop sign on Mark Street but there is one on Matthew and Luke streets, and concludes that the ones on Luke and Matthew streets are both copied from a sign on a completely hypothetical street called "Q".
	soli.inav.net /~catalyst/Humor/stop.htm (1373 words)

	Florida Defendants Get Retrial on Manslaughter Convictions Resulting from Deaths at Intersection Where Stop Sign ...
		The stop sign in question was found lying on the ground with the top bolt missing.
		Finally, a warning sign located one-tenth of a mile north of the intersection on Keyesville Road (that is, approaching the intersection) was found with one bolt missing and the other bolt partially unscrewed.
		During the trial, when asked if the co-defendants had told him when the signs were taken, Jarrard answered, "I believe they said the day before." In her initial closing argument, the prosecutor used this testimony to support her argument that the signs were all taken the night before the accident.
	www.usroads.com /journals/rilj/0110/ri011001.htm (3136 words)

	Stop sign plans no longer stalled
		A stop sign was tacked to the base of an arrows sign on Forest Street, facing Cronks Street.
		The sign was a traffic hazard, causing many drivers to stop in the middle of the T-intersection, explained Charles Lee, a deputy commissioner for the Orange County Department of Public Works.
		It was mid-December when the county highway department finally replaced the stop sign that had been missing from the left-hand side of the intersection, and moved the right-hand side sign even further from the hemlocks.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2003/03/20/stop20.htm (454 words)

	STOP Sign Hermeneutics
		A Liberal Democrat stops at the sign, but feels that the community would be better served if this was a through street, and the cross street had the stop.
		An atheist examines the legality of the stop sign in reference to his personal standards of morals and acceptable social dogmas, determines that there are sufficient justifications to stop in view of enlightened self interest, and halts his vehicle.
		A militant atheist feels that the civic official that determined the stop sign arrangement at this intersection was probably working to inflict his personal standards of traffic onto the population in general and blows the stopsign in an act of civil disobedience.
	elephanticity.250x.com /oldhex/humor/stopsgn.htm (1139 words)

	At the Stop Sign
		The strict reconstructionist Heathen would complain that stop signs are an insult to the gods, and that hiring a police officer to control traffic is a truer and more traditional approach to road safety.
		The eclectic Heathen, approaching the stop sign, decides whether or not to stop based on how urgent the trip is and where he hopes to go.
		Therefore, stop signs are a clear symbol of the dominant Judeo-Christian culture's attempt at "stopping" Heathens from practicing their true ancestral tradition--and should be vandalized or destroyed whenever possible.
	www.geocities.com /ingwibergo/stopsign.html (667 words)

	Halfbakery: 2 at a Time Stop Sign
		Stop signs are also used in the UK, but I think more often there are "Give way" signs.
		The strict "must stop" is not enforced in the same way as with which you seem to suffer.
		Now let's say there are lines of 10 cars stopped on each side of one street, and a steady flow of 2 cars stopped on each side of the cross street.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/2_20at_20a_20Time_20Stop_20Sign (717 words)

	This Is Broken - Stop sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stopping is in two different contexts as indicated by the two different format signs.
		At the very least, they should have obeyed the convention that traffic control signs are generally displayed perpendicular to the flow of traffic, whereas parking control signs are usually closer to parallel to the roadway (maybe angled just a little towards the traffic).
		The no stopping sign really should have been placed several feet before the stop sign to show that it applies to the street in general, not to the area in front of the stop sign.
	www.thisisbroken.com /b/2006/03/stop_sign.html (1884 words)

	Hermeneutics in everyday life (a stop sign) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A preacher might look up "STOP" in his lexicons of English and discover that it can mean: 1) something which prevents motion, such as a plug for a drain, or a block of wood that prevents a door from closing; 2) a location where a train or bus lets off passengers.
		A New Testiment scholar notices that there is no stop sign on Mark street but there is one on Matthew and Luke streets, and concludes that the ones on Luke and Matthew streets are both copied from a sign on a completely hypothetical street called "Q".
		A "Word of Faith" preacher reads the sign and explains that we are redeemed from the curse of the law; therefore we are not bound from such negative laws.
	members.aol.com /TrueHumor/stopsign.htm (1042 words)

	Stop Sign Valentine
		This enforcement effort, called “Operation Stop in the Name of Safety,” is intended to reduce the number of traffic collisions, injuries and deaths, that occur on our city streets because of stop-sign related violations.
		Two of the double-fatality collisions that have occurred on city streets in recent years have occurred when drivers pulled out from a stop sign into the path of another vehicle, and a significant percentage of our total collision rate is stop sign related.
		With almost 350 stop signs on Lodi streets, the potential for traffic conflicts is high.
	www.lodi.gov /press_releases/html/stop_sign_valentine.htm (322 words)

	Stop sign would signal right of way - The Boston Globe
		But a stop sign would be much more reassuring, said town resident Elizabeth Breuer Stacey.
		And about 1,000 feet away is a two-way stop sign controlling traffic on Pine and Forest streets.
		Besides, there are many other ''uncontrolled" intersections in Marshfield without yield or stop signs, said Foulsham, who teaches driver's education at night.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/10/28/stop_sign_would_signal_right_of_way (505 words)

	Stop Sign Hermeneutics
		Similarly, a Marxist refuses to stop because he sees the stop sign as an instrument of class conflict.
		A scholar from the Jesus Seminar concludes that the passage 'STOP' undoubtedly was never uttered by Jesus himself because being the progressive Jew that he was, he would never have wanted to stifle people's progress.
		Therefore 'STOP' must be a textual insertion belonging entirely to stage III of the gospel tradition, when the church was first confronted by traffic in its parking lot.
	qumran.com /Mashal/stop_sign_hermeneutics.htm (736 words)

	CNN - Defendants get 15-year prison sentences for stop-sign killings - June 20, 1997
		TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- Three defendants were sentenced to 15 years each in state prison Friday for uprooting a stop sign at an intersection where three teen-agers were killed in a crash a few hours later.
		A stop sign was found lying on the roadside near the accident.
		But Cole told jurors during last month's trial that he and his friends didn't touch the stop sign at the intersection where the three friends lost their lives.
	www.cnn.com /US/9706/20/stop.sign/index.html (765 words)

	Street sign theft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In one notable United States case, thieves were found guilty of manslaughter for stealing a stop sign, and thereby causing a deadly collision.
		The sign for Magnanville, Yvelines, France is often stolen by students of Ecole Polytechnique, because Polytechnique's slang for their cafeteria is magnan.
		Signs pointing the direction to Shag Point in New Zealand are also frequently stolen because of the connotations of sexual behaviour.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Street_sign_theft (972 words)

	Stop Sign Violation
		My wife (who is a baby-face, I'll admit) pulls up to the stop sign, sees the police car parked in the lot across the street with its lights off and makes sure she pulls the car to a complete stop.
		Just after she crosses the intersection (and is now 200 yards from her parents house and 250 yards from the police station) the officer turns on his lights and pulls her over.
		He then explains that he pulled her over for running the stop sign that he was watching from the lot.
	www.expertlaw.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1385 (1001 words)

	The Hermeneutics of the Stop Sign
		She concludes that the bourgeois use the north-south road and obstruct the progress of the workers in the east-west road.
		A New Testament scholar notices that there is no stop sign on Mark street but there is one on Matthew and Luke streets, and concludes that the ones on Luke and Matthew streets are both copied from a sign on a street no one has ever seen, called "Q" street.
		Therefore, he concludes that stop signs are the dreaded "mark of the beast," a harbinger of divine judgment upon the world, and must be avoided at all costs.
	www.extremelysmart.com /humor/stopsign (1131 words)

	CNN.com - Teens, convicted in deaths for removing stop sign, win appeal - February 28, 2001
		The case is believed to have been the first time the removal of a traffic sign led to a manslaughter conviction.
		But Cole told jurors he and his friends didn't touch the stop sign at the intersection where the fatal accident occurred.
		The three teens were arrested after they threw stolen stop signs into a river, police said.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/LAW/02/28/stopsign.deaths (353 words)

	RedOrbit - Technology - High Court Asked to Weigh Bowling Green Traffic Stop: Sign Infraction Led to Man's DUI ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The sign violations were the sole reasons for the stop.
		He could not be reached for comment yesterday, but he has maintained that allowing police to use evidence gathered from a traffic stop based on signs that never legally existed would undermine the Fourth Amendment protection against illegal search and seizure.
		Godwin turning the wrong way on a one-way driveway in violation of what seemed to be valid signs soon after bars had closed provided "probable cause" and a "reasonable basis" for the officer to pull him over.
	www.redorbit.com /news/technology/429713/high_court_asked_to_weigh_bowling_green_traffic_stop_sign/index.html?source=r_technology (550 words)

	Stop Sign Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While stop signs at all intersections would reduce crashes, the Commission believed that the most accident-prone intersections already had stop signs, the proposed sub-collectors could encourage speeding and the additional stop signs would not produce significant increases in safety.
		City staff gathered useful information from the Stop Sign Policy study that will be helpful in evaluating future requests for stop signs.
		One area of special interest is the need for stop signs at uncontrolled intersections in an area with a high concentration of intersections that already have two-way stop control.
	www.ci.richfield.mn.us /PublicWorks/StopSigns.htm (225 words)

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