In the US, does a stop sign take priority over a red light?

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Note that there is no stop line before the crosswalk. Thus the light applies to the stop lines that correspond with the stop signs.

Under normal conditions this is simply a pair of stop signs controlling merging traffic, but if someone wants to use the crosswalk the light will be red and you have to wait for it to turn green before proceeding.

A very unusual situation but it seems perfectly clear to me what to do. Sometimes the traffic engineers have to do odd things when they have work with existing roads.

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You can never drive through a red light under any (non-emergency) circumstances, other than turning right (in certain situations). The process for someone driving Cremona to merge onto Nickerson would be:

  1. Come to a complete stop at the stop sign.
  2. If it's safe to do so (no oncoming vehicles) merge onto Nickerson
  3. If the traffic light is red, stop at the traffic light or behind the car(s) at the traffic lights. It doesn't matter if there are pedestrians or not. You will always stop here if it's red. If there is enough traffic such that merging is not possible, you may have to wait longer to be able to merge onto Nickerson, behind that stop sign.
  4. Go when permitted by the traffic light.

This means that you may have to stop and start a few times, but the Stop sign only applies to Cremona St and doesn't give you right-of-way through the traffic light after you've passed it.

Hope that helps!

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