A lot of traffic coming from one direction and not much from the others? That's where the TWO-WAY STOP (or its friends the one and three-way stops) come in. However these are usually applied incorrectly to prioritize traffic leaving an empty neighborhood over through traffic on an artery.
Roundabouts make it easy to join the traffic flow. Not so much on a 1-way or 2-way, little less so on 3-ways. Removing a stop sign is just a bandaid, not a solution. Besides, I wasn't talking about high volume from one way and low/no volume from another. I was talking about high volume from one way and medium-high volume from the other(s), hence "not so much".
If we take my situation:
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In the morning, we have medium traffic going from S Oak Grove and splitting onto N Oak Grove and Walnut for work, mostly onto Walnut. At the same time we have thousands of high schoolers arriving nose to tail, mostly from N Oak Grove to S Oak Grove, but a third or so are coming in from Walnut.
In the afternoon, the kids go the other way and split onto Walnut and N Oak Grove. S Oak Grove is the only avenue they have to get out of school. It's about an hour of nose-to-tail.
Few hours later, the medium work traffic comes back in from both Walnut and N Oak Grove.
N Oak Grove is split into 1-ways by the creek. Also bear in mind that this is residential, so there's a constant flow of light traffic.
Solve that with stop signs.