This isn't so much an ignored stop sign as it is everyone thinking there IS a stop sign where there isn't (eastbound on West Emerson @ Tremont right in front of Bohemian Coffehouse/Trinity Church). Eastbound traffic can't have a stop sign because it would back traffic onto the commuter rail tracks but stopped drivers at that intersection always assume it's a four way stop. I've seen through drivers honked at, cursed at and nearly rammed in the side by unaware drivers. Wish Melrose would put THREE WAY STOP above all three stop signs in that intersection to increase awareness!

Jennifer is absolutely right....the 3-way stop at West Emerson and Tremont is very confusing. Problem is the railroad tracks prevent the installation of the 4th sign...
Mike

The stop sign at Green Street and Howard Street going onto Howard towards Horace Mann school/Saugus. People run this all the time so if you are on Albert/Elm/Clifford pulling onto Howard you can't get out since they don't stop. Have seen many near misses there.

Lincoln and Porter; Porter and Bellevue. I walk to work and see this constantly.
Alison B.

My vote: The stop sign at the intersection of Washington and Pleasant Sts by Martys Furniture.

I live on corner of Howayd and Elm. Sometimes I sit on front prch and count the cars who run Howard/Green Streets sign in our 8 years in our home, police detail has been out tcketing MAYBE 1/2 dozen times. I also think Clifford st between Albert and Elm shuld be made ONE WAY ouy onto Elm/ Howard as there are stop signs before turning onto Howard. Turning off Howard onto Elm/Clifford is one massive free for all. Can you PLEASE share these comments with "powers that be"?

Anything in the Horace Mann neoghborhood, especially the two stop signs on Damon Ave at Boardman and Glendale. It is a small neighborhood with children walking to and from school. Not only do people speed but they ignore the stop signs completely (I live on one of these corners and watch it all day log). Residents have written to the city and police about it but so far nothing has been done. During the "increased patrols" of the area the police speed just as much as everyone else.

I Live at on the corner of CIifford and Nelson. That intersection there is horrible! I can't even begin to tell you how many cars don't stop. Nelson is a big cut through to Howard and the Fells to Lincoln. There are so many children that live in the neighborhood and who walk to Horace Mann! It is very dangerous!!

The stop signs at Swains Pond Ave/Beech Ave/Cumner Ave! I have come to that intersection, stopped, and watched other cars just drive through while barely slowing down to make sure nobody else is running the stop signs.

This question combined with a previous polling question on speeding spots around Melrose illustrates the traffic conflicts around Melrose I believe. We are a walking community - our schools, our downtown, our excellent access to car-free transportation - but we are also a gateway community for many types of drivers trying to access other places and to do business. I'd really like to see a mandatory city speed limit of 25 mph that is routinely enforced until a pattern of slower movement is established. This conscious driving would hopefully also make drivers more aware of things like stop signs and cross-walks. Hopefully.....

I don't know if it's considered the "most ignored" but as the fiance and I were walking to the Roosevelt School to pick up our kids one day an older woman blew right through the intersection at Melrose & Vinton, turning left without a stop or a glance to us about to enter the intersection. She then missed the turn into the school. Stopped dead. Backed up. Blocked traffic. And then parked in front of a driveway.

The 4 (5) way intersection @ Linwood Ave and Lynde/Malvern is totally ignored. As is in that same 1 block the 4 way stop @Summer and Lynde. I have had discussion with Police who have gone through these STOP signs.

Nelson and clifford st are terrible.

The most ignored Stop sign is the one between Hunts photo/video and The Melrose Y Childcare Center. I've watched people use that alley way as a short cup to pass up the light and zip through the parking lot. The problem is that the parking lot has small children walking in it.

It's an accident waiting to happen.

How about Gooch and any other street crossing it at the hours between 4 and 6. Melrose has turned into a big cut through for cars coming from Lebanon to rt one and the drivers in the cars just don't pay attention to the very obvious stop signs. Big money maker for the town if tickets were given out here...

Agreed. If Melrose Police set up traffic enforcement detail during AM and PM commutes, the revenues would surely add to the city coffers. And given the fact that Melrose HS didn't "crack" Boston Magazine's top 50, I think we all agree that the funds could be put to good use.
Anyone know if the Mayor reads these remarks?

I would like to see more enforcement in all traffic violations. Stand at the corner of Franklin St. and Main some morning, and you will see dozens of drives that do not stop on red lights. More taking the right turn on red when it is clearly posted "no turn on red. Or even better the drivers that blow through the red light on the WALK sign. When a ticket is written for a moving violation who gets the money? If the town even gets a small portion of it, it could really add up!

The real problem with so many of the cut-throughs is badly designed stop light intersections in the city. Lebanon Street at Foster/Upham/Emerson is particularly bad, because the narrowness of the old street means that north-south trough traffic is badly blocked by cars making turns as the stop lights are not sequenced the way they should be given the volume and the street narrowness.

Lincoln and Porter (going east). Some people drive as though the sign is invisible.