WTF are you talking about? Most cities do not do this.

That would be aligned with the pronunciation of Linnaeus that it's presumably named after.

If we're going to quote, how about the disadvantages:

> the Handbook of Road Safety Measures recommends that four-way stops are best used between minor roads away from urbanized areas

and

> Some of the disadvantages associated with all-way stops are: > > * Increased emissions of hydrocarbons.[9]: 431–433 > * Increased average delay.[9]: 430 > * Increased wear on vehicle brakes > * Discouraging bicycling.[10]

In most countries stop signs are quite rare - like you can go days without seeing one, so kind of, yes.

But I was talking about all-way stops, which are only in N. America, Liberia, and S. Africa, because they are inefficient and unhelpful.

Ugh, no, traffic calming should not be by creating endless stop-and-start, creating extra noise and pollution. Other forms of traffic calming are superior to adding yet more of the most idiotic traffic control layout known to man (that almost the entire rest of the world rightly shuns).

Never seen a low-slung work truck? What sort of work trucks have lower ground clearance than a car?

As for cars, if you lower your car and now it can't get around, I think that's on you. They put violent speed bumps in Somerville and while people whine about them all the time, the only people I've ever seen scraping their cars were going way too fast. Ironically, weirdly often in Priuses, though friends who driver Priuses say they have zero problems because they slow down for the bumps.

Yes, it is very seasonal, but even now at rush hour I am usually with a cluster of other cyclists at Inman, comparable in number to how many cars get through each light cycle. When it's very busy and people demonstrate their superlative MA gridlocking skills further east on Hampshire, I'm pretty sure many more bikes than cars get through.

Since there isn't significant bike congestion, usually you just see them briefly riding past, while the cars numbers are very evident as they're waiting in queues.

And then come May, the number of cyclists explodes. Ironic really, as IMO that's the start of the bad season for biking, when it gets too warm. Right now is at the cool end of optimal.

Hyperbole, but good point. More like 10 months. So the city does need to do a much better job of winter clearance from bike lanes, so people are not dissuaded from riding when it's been snowy and icy, and preferably some efforts to encourage people to keep going through the winter (it really is much easier than most people imagine)

As we use cycling to ease the load on road and rail, it's spoiled if most cyclists flock away from cycling just because it snowed.

Eh? I regularly encounter about 10-15 people around when waiting at Inman Sq at peak hours. They're not in a line typically, they bunch up through the light phase.

The lunch special is almost good for two lunches... Fragrant and tasty. I wish it was a better location.

Huh, working nearby I used to go for lunch sometimes and found it adequate but kind of bland, generic and uninteresting.

I always make the trek to Surya instead. No buffet, but worth it.