[CPOSharky]

Many years ago in Connecticut there was a rotary with stop signs ON the circle. Drivers on the circle had to stop for entering traffic. Makes you wonder what special kind of stupid ran the highway department.

[Vigilanteman]

Makes you wonder what special kind of stupid ran the highway department.

Probably the same people who design roads for PENNDOT. Come to SW Pennsylvania and you will see:

1. Three way stop signs where someone turning left or right doesn't have to yield.
   
2. Two way stop signs where turners have the right of way.
   
3. Yield signs at controlled access highways where yielding is optional, if you are big enough, even when the car already on the highway is signaling and moving over to get off at the next exit ramp which you are blocking by barging on . . . causing everyone behind to slam their brakes and stack up while you refuse to yield.
   
4. Nimrods who suddenly slam their brakes at the same type of controlled access entrance even when there is 300 yards or more of merge lane available and nobody coming. Ask them why and they will tell you that they wanted to get in the lane further left . . . as if entering the immediate lane and then moving over is NOT an option.
   
5. People driving a short sedan who need more room to negotiate a right turn than your typical 18 wheeler with an extended tractor-trailer AND expect oncoming traffic in the through street they are entering to just stop and wait while they do.
   
6. The same people previously described turning left off a through street who need all right turning traffic to move 200 feet or so back so they can avoid a left turn angle any sharper than about 135 degrees. And shame on you if you can't anticipate this idiocy or quickly make your right turn to avoid getting clipped or backing up for such morons.
   
7. The courtesy clowns who, all of a sudden, stopped in the middle of through street and wave waiting traffic in because they think they've been waiting too long, sort of like the Volvo driver which Dave Barry describes in the roundabout.
   
8. Did I mention the nimrods on foot or on bicycle who think it is perfectly acceptable to cross at a Jersey barrier even when a regular intersection with a light and crosswalk is a block or so away?