>>1388706I'm more concerned about the opposite to be honest. Residential four way stops being super exposed in like a 100 feet radius makes road users overconfident about their visibility and entices them to run stop signs. The less sure people are about the clearance of their path, the more they instinctively slow down. And speed is the primary cause for fatal traffic accidents. A lot of American urban planners nowadays agree that applying highway dimension guidelines to residential streets was a mistake, and in order to make residential streets safer you actually have to make them narrower and more obstructed. Traffic engineers in my country slow down residential streets by intentionally obstructing motor vehicles and making them snake around bollards, planters and parking spaces.
