Botched Traffic Signals
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How about these which appear to have an unused set of pedestrian crossing indicators. Several sets of these around the roundabout.
Did someone order the wrong ones, or did they have some excess stock sitting around at the depot?
Did someone order the wrong ones, or did they have some excess stock sitting around at the depot?
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Re: Botched Traffic Signals
I think boinguk who used to be a member on here once said that they sometimes use blank aspects to store extra electricals. My guess is that they are been used to store what would usually go in the top of the pole cap because if you look at the ones without the ped box on they have the actual caps on the top where as the ones with the boxes have no cap. Maybe it's just easier to maintain lower down so they've put them down there.
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This one is the same. When the signals were renewed, these heads actually had half-tubes, with the open side facing towards the road. They were clearly visible from the station platform until the full tubes were fitted.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 16:34That seems like a bit of a stretch - railway signals would be at a much lower level, but I suppose we can't rule out someone being over-cautious.Chris5156 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 16:21I don’t know for sure, but as they are rotated to the side I’d guess it’s so that approaching trains can’t see the lights and mistake them for railway signals.ReissOmari wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 13:50 Anybody got any clue as to why these traffic signal hoods look like this? https://goo.gl/maps/rjmntPQJnqqUVrND9
That's usually to mount equipment (such as transformers and detector connectors) that would traditionally be housed in a signal head, but where there is no signal head available, such as a pedestrian crossing with nearside indicators.L.J.D wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 06:38I think boinguk who used to be a member on here once said that they sometimes use blank aspects to store extra electricals. My guess is that they are been used to store what would usually go in the top of the pole cap because if you look at the ones without the ped box on they have the actual caps on the top where as the ones with the boxes have no cap. Maybe it's just easier to maintain lower down so they've put them down there.
Not ruling that out at all, but the roundabout examples are unusual. The poles are all wide-based, so it wouldn't be uncommon for the terminations to be in the base rather than the pole cap. It's also worth noting that at the other arms of the roundabout, there just seems to be one of these dummy heads per approach, and one approach has none at all. If you roll back on GSV, they appear to be fitted to the various poles at different dates, too.
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Not so much a botch but the other night I was out and there's a newish puffin and pegasus crossing on the Glasshoughton southern relief road and the vehicle heads were on green but they were flashing quite fast and then they cut off completely. The pedestrian nearside lights were all still on whilst vehicle lights were off then they came back on and did a pedestrian demand. Very odd indeed. It kept doing it over and over with the lights flickering.
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https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4630111 ... 384!8i8192
theres straight ahead and straight ahead? was there once a right turn filter here?
theres straight ahead and straight ahead? was there once a right turn filter here?
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Those are okay. The only movement allowed is ahead, left and right turns are banned.Rambo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 22:33 https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4630111 ... 384!8i8192
theres straight ahead and straight ahead? was there once a right turn filter here?
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Not necessarily botched, but i find this one unusual at Bispham, Blackpool with four lights on one head vertically. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8496466 ... 312!8i6656
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Really? I'm finding that four-in-line is very common on newer installations, regardless of whether the fourth lamp is a green arrow or a box sign, and this applies even when there are not obvious reasons such as side clearance. I have to say that I find the traditional L-shape more pleasing on the eye, but maybe there is guidance out there these days that prefers the in-line signal arrangement.Rambo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 14:31 Not necessarily botched, but i find this one unusual at Bispham, Blackpool with four lights on one head vertically. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8496466 ... 312!8i6656
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Personally i haven't seen many of these in line examples. But i agree i think the L shape gives the left/right turn more effect despite being chunkier.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 15:00Really? I'm finding that four-in-line is very common on newer installations, regardless of whether the fourth lamp is a green arrow or a box sign, and this applies even when there are not obvious reasons such as side clearance. I have to say that I find the traditional L-shape more pleasing on the eye, but maybe there is guidance out there these days that prefers the in-line signal arrangement.Rambo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 14:31 Not necessarily botched, but i find this one unusual at Bispham, Blackpool with four lights on one head vertically. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8496466 ... 312!8i6656
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What you might like is the Czech practice, which is sometimes to put filter arrows next to the *red* lamp, not the green. I think this works because the driver's eye will already be on that red lamp, and side-to-side head/eye movements are much more instinctive than up-and-down. This shot from Google Streetview shows such a signal, sadly at the wrong phase for the filter to be lit.Rambo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 15:23Personally i haven't seen many of these in line examples. But i agree i think the L shape gives the left/right turn more effect despite being chunkier.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 15:00Really? I'm finding that four-in-line is very common on newer installations, regardless of whether the fourth lamp is a green arrow or a box sign, and this applies even when there are not obvious reasons such as side clearance. I have to say that I find the traditional L-shape more pleasing on the eye, but maybe there is guidance out there these days that prefers the in-line signal arrangement.Rambo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 14:31 Not necessarily botched, but i find this one unusual at Bispham, Blackpool with four lights on one head vertically. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8496466 ... 312!8i6656
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In Lithuania they put a green arrow on a metal sign next to the red light if you are allowed to turn right when the red light is on.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 16:27 What you might like is the Czech practice, which is sometimes to put filter arrows next to the *red* lamp, not the green. I think this works because the driver's eye will already be on that red lamp, and side-to-side head/eye movements are much more instinctive than up-and-down. This shot from Google Streetview shows such a signal, sadly at the wrong phase for the filter to be lit.
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Also the practice in the GDR, (green arrow on black in that case), and supposedly adopted in the united Germany, but I don't know how widespread it has become.Big L wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 17:15In Lithuania they put a green arrow on a metal sign next to the red light if you are allowed to turn right when the red light is on.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 16:27 What you might like is the Czech practice, which is sometimes to put filter arrows next to the *red* lamp, not the green. I think this works because the driver's eye will already be on that red lamp, and side-to-side head/eye movements are much more instinctive than up-and-down. This shot from Google Streetview shows such a signal, sadly at the wrong phase for the filter to be lit.
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I don't like that at all.Big L wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 17:15In Lithuania they put a green arrow on a metal sign next to the red light if you are allowed to turn right when the red light is on.Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 16:27 What you might like is the Czech practice, which is sometimes to put filter arrows next to the *red* lamp, not the green. I think this works because the driver's eye will already be on that red lamp, and side-to-side head/eye movements are much more instinctive than up-and-down. This shot from Google Streetview shows such a signal, sadly at the wrong phase for the filter to be lit.
First of all I don't like ped crossings never get a dedicated green, and usually just go as an inline crossing and hope that turning vehicles give way to those who are crossing.
Second of all, if you are in the right lane wanting to go ahead, you may be blocking the person behind from turning right (since they can go but you cannot). This is especially worse for bicycles since they would either have to go into the left lane and then find themselves in between two vehicles going ahead, or alternatively someone could pass on their left and cut across in front of them.
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Those sort of pedestrian crossings are standard in almost all the rest of the world.jervi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 20:23 I don't like that at all.
First of all I don't like ped crossings never get a dedicated green, and usually just go as an inline crossing and hope that turning vehicles give way to those who are crossing.
Second of all, if you are in the right lane wanting to go ahead, you may be blocking the person behind from turning right (since they can go but you cannot). This is especially worse for bicycles since they would either have to go into the left lane and then find themselves in between two vehicles going ahead, or alternatively someone could pass on their left and cut across in front of them.
I'm not really a fan of right on red, but where it's allowed, there should be a right only lane. But it's common enough in North America, where right on red doesn't have a sign and is the default situation.
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I had reason to be looking around Kirkcaldy, Scotland on GSV and happened to notice their frequent use of both nearside and farside indicators together (perhaps authorised by the Scottish government). There's a examples of older Elite sites, LED 3G sites and newer Helios sites. I particularly enjoy this one, given the resident has a PEEK controller cabinet in their front yard!
I also came across two 'interesting' cycle facilities in Bristol, also on GSV. Firstly this non-standard use of a nearside Toucan indicator, and latterly this bizarre selection of push buttons, I assume with the intention of allowing cycles to cross the carriageway to and from the cycle lane.
I also came across two 'interesting' cycle facilities in Bristol, also on GSV. Firstly this non-standard use of a nearside Toucan indicator, and latterly this bizarre selection of push buttons, I assume with the intention of allowing cycles to cross the carriageway to and from the cycle lane.
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Talking about in-line lights this one in Leeds has interested me:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.81486 ... 384!8i8192
I've only ever seen the other two lamps lit up once. My guess is it allows left and right turns if the pedestrian signal ahead is active. Also has another unusual single traffic signal mounted on the pedestrian pole too.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.81486 ... 384!8i8192
I've only ever seen the other two lamps lit up once. My guess is it allows left and right turns if the pedestrian signal ahead is active. Also has another unusual single traffic signal mounted on the pedestrian pole too.
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From the size of it, a Mellor-style green arrow.tom66 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:13 Talking about in-line lights this one in Leeds has interested me:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.81486 ... 384!8i8192
I've only ever seen the other two lamps lit up once. My guess is it allows left and right turns if the pedestrian signal ahead is active. Also has another unusual single traffic signal mounted on the pedestrian pole too.
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We discussed this one a few pages back in this thread, it's an ahead and right filter.tom66 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:13 Talking about in-line lights this one in Leeds has interested me:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.81486 ... 384!8i8192
I've only ever seen the other two lamps lit up once. My guess is it allows left and right turns if the pedestrian signal ahead is active. Also has another unusual single traffic signal mounted on the pedestrian pole too.
traffic-light-man wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:50It seems the latter Leeds example has some quite clever staging using filters to allow walk-with-traffic pedestrian crossings. Firstly, the A660 city-bound runs an ahead and right filter, allowing the ped crossing on Woodhouse Street (left) to run. Then it would appear Woodhouse Street runs a 'Humberside right' (though not back-to-back), allowing the ped crossing on the A660 and Hyde Park Road to run concurrently.
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I believe that is the correct installation.Rambo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 22:33 https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4630111 ... 384!8i8192
theres straight ahead and straight ahead? was there once a right turn filter here?
A green 'ahead' arrow on its own doesn't make it illegal to turn left or right, you need a traffic order backed up by a mandatory 'ahead only' sign.
I'm not sure what the legal situation is if you pass a green arrow but take a different route from the one indicated by the arrow – I don't recommend anyone tries it to find out though!