a world full of stop signs

my neighbourhood has suddenly begun to overflow with stop signs and i'm confused. i mean, have you seen my neighbourhood? there's nothing really fancy about it, and certainly no streets with incredible traffic volume (or even significant traffic volume). i've lived in my house for eighteen years now and i've only ever seen one accident on one of the streets near me (and that's because the motorcyclist was flying down the street at like 130 km/h). i'm just so confused aboutt he sudden influx of stop signs. i mean, honestly, do i really need a stop sign at the foot of my cul-de-sac? At best, there are only about 20 people living in the cul-de-sac and we've all been living there for at least 15 years. I figure in those 15 years we've had enough practice coming and going out of our cul-de-sac. Seriously, there's only 5 houses, we're not that inept that a stop sign is warranted. Oh, and guess what's next? Speed bumps. Why on earth do we need speed bumps? Now that there's a stop sign every 12 feet, I can't achieve more than a top speed of 5 km/h. If anything, a whole whack of speed bumps is going to make me want to drive faster.

anyway, that's my rant. i really don't hate all stop signs, i promise, i just don't like the extraneous ones popping up in my neighbourhood.