Stop signs....the bane continues

Coming home from a meeting with an Israel expert in the Loop Friday afternoon, my commute reminded me once again how the usage of stop signs in Chicago has gone so horribly wrong. There are a number of streets that go under train tracks--either light rail (CTA elevated) or heavy rail (Metra). On some of these streets, like Pratt Boulevard and Morse Avenue, the underpass has two stop signs: one just before the underpass, and one at the end of the underpass, about 20 feet from the first. Who has time to stop twice? The stop signs are there to "protect" streets that run alongside the tracks. Maybe the stop signs those streets have for the major through street might be sufficient? But no. Through traffic must screech to a halt on the off-chance that someone might be coming from the side streets--which already have stop signs. Outrageous.