They installed a traffic light on their garage!! It is always a red light. In the last two years, I saw it blinking yellow only once. This house sits at a T-intersection. Without this red light, I almost forgot to stop at a stop sign few times. The stop sign at the intersection is so easy to miss. I’m sure that a few cars ran into their property before. What I’m not sure is who pays the electric bills. This house is on a county road.
I guess no one wants to pay over $35K for installing a traffic light here. When I lived in NJ, someone told me that we have to have two fatal accidents in order for the local government to put up a new traffic light. It’s sad, but it’s a fact. There was an intersection where so many accidents occurred. They build a new road and they made the intersection too wide. The driver cannot see the traffic from the stop sign. Until a fatal accident happened, we didn’t have a traffic light at that intersection for few years. It’s not only a reckless driver can get in an accident, even a safe driver can have an accident. I think I’m very lucky so far. (My high school friends were totally amazed by me driving a car in US more than 20 years without having a ‘big’ accident… they think I’m so careless and have ten thumbs and two left feet.)