Stop Sign

Stop sign is very popular, and it is part of American culture. My intervention is made for small town like Bloomington. And the change of currently used traffic control system is to use a moving target identification and crossroad traffic control system to instead of the stop signs which were currently used. In the moving target identification and crossroad traffic control system, there is a camera to identify the moving cars in certain direction, and control traffic light system according different numbers of the cars in different directions.

All stop signs should be instead by using this kind of identification systems and traffic lights. As a small town, Bloomington has a complex traffic control system and the traffic network connects everywhere. Lots of stop signs are used all over Bloomington. I lived in the west part of Bloomington, and every morning I drive fifteen to twenty minutes to come to school between 8am to 8:30 am. From my home to the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) parking lot, I need to pass through 10 traffic lights and 8 stop signs to go to the parking lot of IMU. I noticed that usually a crossroad which uses a stop sign as a method to control traffic is not on a busy road, and most of the stop signs near downtown area or residential area. The speed limit around a stop sign is not higher than 30 miles/hour. Usually when I drive through a road which has a stop sign between every two blocks, my speed is as low as 20 or 15 miles/hour.