4-way stops are really helpful in keeping people from barreling at high
speed through residential neighborhoods.  They prevent accidents.  We fought
really hard to get them in our neighborhood.

Joy

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Joy Hecht
now living in a real house in northern Virginia
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
lugging Joy and her stuff around...

For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://www.joyhecht.net

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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Florian Speier
:::Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:54 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: teenagers and vanagons
:::
:::On 10/11/06, Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@gmail.com> wrote:
:::>
:::> I like driving a stick better anyway - it's fun (except in
:::> traffic jams).
:::>
:::>
:::>
:::well, the other thing I kind of claim sometimes, hope I dont ofend
:::someone
:::with it, aehh... but really, only a country with mainly automatic drivers
:::could possibly come up with the system of 4-way stops? (and in general a
:::million stop signs everywhere)
:::just an observation by a new immigrant....love it here.....
:::flo