Take Turns.

Gary Lauder, a managing partner of an IT firm in Silicon Valley, dissects the financial cost of a 3 way intersection that is questionably necessary. Calculating the cost to stop and accelerate in and out of the stopping area in gas and in pollution, the results are astounding in dollars per year... in fact it is enough money to buy the lot on the intersection and sell it for profit. Essentially, Lauder concludes that it is not always the car that needs to be changed to save the environment or your money but the design of the road. He also explains how roundabouts save an extremely high percentage of lives lost in intersection accidents. How can we as a community learn to create better roads OR how can we just learn to "take turns," mixing the meanings of a stop sign and a yield side which would create enough uncertainty to cause a driver to slow down and be cautious but maybe not always come to a complete stop. Interesting indeed.