I have entered and exited the Plaza 15 driveway nearly every weekday for the past 14 years. Those stop signs DO slow down traffic, especially northbound, and help us get in and out of the driveway without cars coming right at us at 50 mph. Those stop signs are making life safer for the hundreds of people who enter and exit Plaza 15 every day. BOCES hosts trainings and meetings that often involve a few hundred people. There is also Pai's Tae Kwon Do, a ballet school, a fitness center, and of course the storage facility that has been there for years. I was there before the stop signs, and I can tell you there is a genuine difference that I experience every day.

I find it worthless and simply slow down. Clearly not needed and a wastes gas.

I agree everyone be careful and make sure you come to a full stop. It has become a cash cow(tickets) for local law enforcement in Saratoga.

The stop sign is frivolous and creates added noise and emmission pollution from all the stopping and starting. Big waste of gas. Stop signs are not designed to enforce speed limits; police and other forms of surveillance are. If people are saying that police are catching people rolling through this stop sign and that is a cash cow for local law enforcement, then that tells me local law enforcement is already there and can just as easily catch speeders on that stretch of road after the sign is taken down. So no need for the sign.

Regarding traffic in and out of Exit 15 plaza: Traffic on that section of Jones Road is not so heavy as to make it hard to safely enter and exit the plaza road. No one has ideal conditions pulling out on to main arteries. Exit 15 Plaza is by no means unique, and in fact, easier than most.

For the 80 residents who live there: 1st off, I don't count 80 houses on that short stretch of road, and those are the only home owners who should have a true vested interest, not the ones in the adjacent neighborhoods. Also, then why aren't the residents of Grand Ave in Saratoga near the High School getting stop signs up and down their road? Traffic on Grand Ave leaving town is far heavier than on Gick, and speeders are more frequent and speed much more agressively than they do on Gick. So let's get rid of the stop sign on Gick, please.

Well let's see. There are 80 residents that live in that area, so even though you don't see 80 houses, there are many in that development affected by traffic traveling north and south on Gick and Jones Rd.

Secondly, people have proven over the years they don't care about the posted 30 mph speed limit. The ones complaining now are the ones I'm talking about. You know who you are.

Third, school buses enter and exit Jordan N. and Jordan S. The stop sign aids in helping them exit those roads.

Fourth, that stop sign will help recude accidents resulting from speeding (which there have been many).

It's sad that people only care about themselves to the point where the safety of others is an inconvenience to them.

Grow up people. You're not alone in this world and the world doesn't revolve around you; even though you think it does.

http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2012/01/29/news/doc4f2604f29be41024024042.txt

RE: the official line given by the "expert" in the article listed below. I would agree to a 2-way stop is needed, not a 3-way. If not seeing on coming traffic, then remove the stop needed for the southbound traveling traffic. This traffic can be seen and the argument for is irrelevant.

Give it up Wilton since three way stop installed no accidents. Don't you remember the 3 broken power poles the year before. The 2 car head on, the roll-over, car hitting trash cans, mailbox then tree with owner standing nearby all on Gick rd. between Jordan N. and S. That's not even counting the accidents in front of Gick rd. Plaza 15. Please just slow down, stop at the three way then keep under 30mph limit to rte 50. Much safer than the old speedway of 55-60 mph.