Brockville Climate Action Group

Ottawa Citizen / Kelly Egan / 24 June 2009

OTTAWA — Stop signs are not only stupid, they're dangerous. So argues Gordon Whitehead, and rather persuasively.

Think of the number of times, in your neighbourhood, you are forced by a stop sign to bring the car to a halt at a deserted intersection.

Braking, looking, waiting, accelerating -- more fuel, more pollution, wear and tear on the vehicle, more travel time -- then do it again a block later, maybe at another deserted intersection. Repeat often, by the millions and millions, across the city, across North America.

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