Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

[tomh009]

In the Netherlands, when I visited I think I saw not more than a handful of stop signs over two weeks of traveling.  There's essentially zero stop or yield signs in neighbourhoods.

Back home, in Europe, when I grew up in the 60s and 70s, there were hardly any stop or yield signs on urban street corners: your responsibility was to yield to the traffic on your right.  I think sometime in the 80s they started installing (mostly) yield signs and (some) stop signs.  I don't believe there has been any movement backwards on that.

But there stop really means stop.  Additionally, it's only used where a full stop is really needed.  Yield means that the other road has a right-of-way, and with full compliance this really should be the default sign rather than a stop.