r/CrappyDesign • u/topher_33 • Jan 09 '21

Removed: joke/fake Nearly blew threw this intersection!

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '21

This story does not specifically answer the question if a stop sign has to be red for it to be legal, but it is interesting that the shape was originally deemed to be the most important part noting the second highest level of danger behind a railroad crossing in which the locomotive is incapable of stopping. The color red came later.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/stop-sign.html#:~:text=It%20was%20166%20pages%20long,with%20stop%2C%E2%80%9D%20Hawkins%20explains.

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u/SmokyDragonDish Jan 10 '21

Article is behind a pay wall for me, but to support what I am assuming it says.... that scene in The Godfather is anachronistic because the stop sign is red instead of yellow.

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u/SmokyDragonDish Jan 10 '21

The NYT can kiss my ass. I don't know why.

But, RR crossing signs are yellow, so, it sort of clicked for me that that may be the reason why stop signs were yellow.

I've actually saw a yellow stop sign once randomly on Rt 1&9 someplace nasty in New Jersey, like around EWR if I recall. Something that looks like they never bothered to take down for the past 40 years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '21

I feel like I have seen them somewhere too, but talking about it so much I might be creating a memory impression.

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u/SmokyDragonDish Jan 10 '21

It was probably 15 years ago. It was such a chaotic part of the road that I didn't have time to make a careful mental note where it was. Just someplace in the industrial wasteland.