LETTERS: Hey, Surrey drivers, \u2018almost stopped\u2019 is not a thing<\/p>\n
Published 9:00 pm Monday, May 18, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
At a four-way stop in South Surrey, I came to a complete stop and began to proceed when a brown pickup truck approaching from my left failed to stop and continued rolling through the intersection. I braked to avoid a collision. The driver carried on and offered an obscene hand gesture, apparently confident in both his timing and his interpretation of traffic law.<\/p>\n
This is becoming routine: the \u201crolling stop,\u201d where \u201cstop\u201d is treated as a suggestion rather than a requirement.<\/p>\n
Four-way stops are simple. Stop completely, then proceed in order. The system depends on everyone agreeing that \u201calmost stopped\u201d is not a thing.<\/p>\n
When that agreement disappears, intersections stop being predictable and start becoming guesswork.<\/p>\n
This is not about impatience. It is about safety for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike.<\/p>\n
Ken Wuschke, Surrey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTERS: Hey, Surrey drivers, \u2018almost stopped\u2019 is not a thing Published 9:00 pm Monday, May 18, 2026 Editor,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-679009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}