A recent KRON-4 segment of "People Behaving Badly" with Stanley Roberts, took place in Belmont at what's now referred to in the accompanying YouTube video as "The Belmont Stop."
"The Belmont Stop" is the four-way stop sign at the corner of Cipriani Boulevard and Alameda de las Pulgas, through which many motorists apparently slowly roll through instead of coming to a complete stop.
The just-under-two-minute video shows a number of cars basically breaking the law by not coming to a complete stop at what Roberts notes is a "blind intersection," because it's difficult to see the cross-traffic at the intersection. The only vehicles to come to a complete stop are the SamTrans buses (whew!).
You can view the YouTube video by clicking here, or on the video link above.
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I received the $300 ticket in the mail. I should have come up something! I stop all the time now. I turn left onto Cipriani off Alameda every day. 50% of the time I have to cut in front of cars streaming over the hill. If it’s not cars it’s deer-It’s Belmont, and I love it!
What's funny about this little KRON segment is that they don't even mention the forgotten fourth stop clear on the other side of Alameda, at Monroe. As I'm sure fellow neighborhood local George Metro would agree, trying to get through that intersection from Monroe is lots of laughs. The best is the look on Alameda drivers' faces when someone dares to enter that intersection from Monroe. That stop sign alone made me order the side-airbag package on my last few cars.
He knew where all best hiding spots were and he would catch speeders (including people who didn't stop at stop signs) all the time. After he would stop the speeder or the person who didn't stop at the sign, he would give them a lecture that they would never forget. Politically correct? No, but it got the job done. He was one scary dude but he did his job thoroughly - he was the best! (Of course at that time I thought he was terribly unfair :-))