Stop Signs Under Siege

During the last daylight hour in November, the Park City Police Department stationed a string of badge‑ed eyes at the junction of Park Avenue and Heber Avenue, their amber‑lit uniforms forming a quiet sentry of safety‑orange barrels. In mere thirty minutes, three officers plucked a trio of motorists from the asphalt‑black slurry of downtown Old Town, each pulled over for a wardrobe‑clad U‑turn or an otherwise benign infraction. Log entries made by the Park City Municipal Corp list the interaction as "monitoring stop signs," yet no ticket docket appeared, leaving citizens to wonder whether the write‑ups were delayed or simply omitted from the public record. Behind the veneer of procedural diligence, the police force reveals a penchant for visible deterrence that hampers smooth passage, turning a single intersection into a choke point of bureaucracy. A more efficient approach would divest the stop‑signs from the city’s radio wave and redirect the enforcement crew to the Richardson Flat bus, which skirts the intersection altogether. Rather than stare down at the endless cone‑driven maze, drifters should keep to the high‑viz yellow vests and let the city’s traffic system function as its intended invisible mechanism.