Something you need to be super careful about is if you're in Spruce Grove or Beaumont and some other surrounding communities is they use these video box things at stop signs, and if you don't sit for the full three seconds, BLAM, ticket in the mail, about $500 worth. Just stopping isn't enough, it's three seconds stopped. A friend of mine tried to fight one, and didn't get far. He stopped, but not for long enough. In Spruce Grove they also have hired people that use hand held cameras and they act like pedestrians and they video you not stopping for three seconds. The high revenue for those tickets makes enforcement an easy investment.
The Yellowhead will be a real freeway in the year 3000. Maybe. They've built one overpass, at 156st in the past 20 years. With overpasses here now costing a quarter of a billion dollars, it's not feasible.
That said, we don't sit for hours on the 401 or trying to cross some bridge in Vancouver, so...
Good to know, I likely won't remember til I get that ticket in the mail though.
The Yellowhead Freeway conversion is officially in City of Edmonton's 10 year plan. Most of it should be done in 5 years but there'll be some lingering interchanges to be built by the 10 year mark.
https://www.edmonton.ca/projects_plans/yellowhead-trail-freeway-conversion.aspxThe AB Driver's Handbook just says you need to come to a "complete" stop. And the legislation doesn't even say "complete":
I didn't think you needed to describe a stop as complete. When your vehicle is no longer moving forward, that's a stop. Reminds me of a joke.
A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a sheriff.
He thinks he's smarter being a big shot lawyer from New York and has a better education than an sheriff from West Virginia. The sheriff asks for license and registration.
The lawyer asks, "What for?"
The sheriff responds, "You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
The lawyer says, "I slowed down and no one was coming."
"You still didn't come to a complete stop. License and registration please," says the sheriff impatiently.
The lawyer says, "If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my license and registration and you can give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don't give me the ticket."
The sheriff says, "That sounds fair, please exit your vehicle."
The lawyer steps out and the sheriff takes out his nightstick and starts beating the lawyer with it.
The sheriff says, "Do you want me to stop or just slow down?"
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In all seriousness, it's really amazing how many drivers anywhere think they can roll through a stop sign. These same drivers hypocritically complain that cyclists are terrible because they run stop signs.