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Queen st preparations
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Work looks like its going to begin soon here. My guess is the existing cobras will be moved onto the temporary poles like the road just down the highway a bit that I posted last year. All of this is part of a huge project of widening and maintenance. Dont mind the dirty window and fuzzy image haha.
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At least you said they'll probably transfer the old fixtures over. I know in the past they've used new fixtures for temporary lighting!
The cool thing about wood pole transfers though is that when a mercury vapor is on the arm, it will get transferred as long as it still works (and even sometimes if it doesn't as long as it's not visibly damaged; they do pole changeouts during the day so they don't know if the light is junk or not).
BTW, are those "up" green arrows a recent thing up there? I noticed when RIDOT spot-replaced a lot of failing LED modules (going on 15+ years now; quite impressive actually) they used "up" arrows when the only way to go was straight. MassDOT has always done that. In fact, they'll even use "up" arrows at 4-way intersections when there's more than one lane and one lane is straight-only. The far right lane will have a ball if you can go straight or right and a right arrow if you can only go right. See here. You can also see the ReStore I got the 6ft F30T12 tandem light from...
This is RIDOT's current set-up. Note one green "up" and one ball. They were both balls when installed but one ball was defective so they spot replaced it with an arrow. It's similar to a MassDOT install but since there's no way to turn right, MassDOT would have used two arrows.
Anyway, that mast is the only new piece at the intersection. It's got a flashing yellow turn light, replacing the bi-color arrow. Not sure why they replaced the whole mast though since at other intersections they just upgraded the signals. Note RIDOT now uses the special tunnel visors with the "thing" on top for snow purposes. Somehow it prevents snow build-up. Not sure how it works but from a side profile, you can see the design better.
Also this streetview from 2015 is now incorrect since the M-400 FCOs on the ramp to the left have all been LED'ed with Leotek GreenCobras, 133W replacing 250W HPS. The light levels are great too. RIDOT actually did a brightness match, though the listed lumens on Leotek's site are far less than 250W HPS. But visually it really appears just as bright. Same for the 280W LED replacing 400W HPS.