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Originally Posted by Army
Because traffic lights give the impression of taking away freedom - whereas stop signs allow you to remain in control.
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Furthermore, traffic lights are frustrating -- it's no fun when you sit at a red light for what seems to be ages and there is NO cross-traffic. If it were a stop sign, you'd be on your merry way after a brief stop. Not always so at traffic lights.
Then you have the numb-nut drivers who won't pull up far enough to trigger the sensor, and you sit even longer if you happen to be stuck behind them. I encounter this on my bicycle at least 2x/week. I'll pull all the way up and to the left at the traffic light on my way home so that anyone behind me still has room to pull well onto the sensor or even make a right on red if they need to, and yet folks still stop 2-3 car lengths back and will not pull forward. My bike and I do not trigger the sensor, so sometimes I sit there for 4-5 minutes waiting (or give up and walk my bike across the crosswalk during a break in traffic).