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Nice Scene of Downtown Lindale Texas Showing Some signal lights and the older streetlights You Can See Several Old Remote Ballasted OV-25 Fixtures............the Newer AE Fixture to the Right Replaced a Crouse Hinds OVM..which was 400 Watt MV Keywords: Traffic_Lights

Nice Scene of Downtown Lindale Texas Showing Some signal lights and the older streetlights

You Can See Several Old Remote Ballasted OV-25 Fixtures............the Newer AE Fixture to the Right Replaced a Crouse Hinds OVM..which was 400 Watt MV

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Filename:Grandtrips 169.JPG
Album name:Form109 / Traffic Lights
Keywords:Traffic_Lights
Filesize:85 KiB
Date added:Jan 28, 2010
Dimensions:1000 x 750 pixels
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Color Space:sRGB
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DateTime Original:2009:11:26 09:47:03
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Exposure Time:1/250 sec
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Focal length:20.6 mm
ISO:100
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GullWhiz   [Jan 28, 2010 at 10:22 AM]
nice shot here.....I dont see OV-25 remote ballst too often...tthe closest i know of is in Frederick MD
dor123   [Jan 28, 2010 at 10:50 AM]
Horizontal traffic lights here in Israel is really non exist. I think this is to allow color blind drivers to guess the color by the height of the operating light (Red is on the top Yellow is in the middle and green is on the bottom).
Edit: I also think that in Israel, horizontal mounted traffic lights is a transgression of the transportation's laws because of the above reasons.
Form109   [Jan 28, 2010 at 10:49 PM]
Thank You Mr.Whiz. Smile ....and dor123 i havent a clue why Texas uses a lot of Horizontally oriented signal installations...we do have some Verticle ones...not too many though,i agree they could be a bit of a hazzard to those who are color-blind.
LilCinnamon   [Jan 28, 2010 at 10:59 PM]
Idk. I am colorblind... But I know which is green/red/yellow because I can easily tell the diff from green and red and yellow. But those who are MUCH more colorblind than me and can't see any colors.... That would be bad.

I know why Texas does horizontal, It is because of the wind and stuff, so they don't siggle and better support.. That is my guess though.
Form109   [Jan 29, 2010 at 02:12 AM]
i've heard that before,but have never been able to confirm it...its entirely possible as the horizontal ones seem to sway less than the Verticle ones.
GullWhiz   [Jan 29, 2010 at 03:20 AM]
We have a very very few setups like this in MD.....most like 99% are verticle though
joe_347V   [Jan 29, 2010 at 06:03 AM]
Ontario never uses horizontal setups like this, Quebec is almost completely horizontal though. I've only seen vertical setups in Montreal.
Form109   [Jan 29, 2010 at 01:32 PM]
this is Probably an Older State Installation...this signal has a hexagonal shaft,newer ones are just round....small towns like this often have there signals installed by the the state it seems,while larger towns might have some state owned in addition to ones owned by a local municipal area electric company.
Silverliner14B   [Jan 29, 2010 at 02:32 PM]
Florida has some horizontal heads, I saw one set up in Leesburg.
Form109   [Jan 29, 2010 at 07:41 PM]
Dave by some do you mean Mostly Verticle?...cause that seems like it was pretty much standard with Horozontial adopted abit later.
Silverliner14B   [Jan 29, 2010 at 08:49 PM]
I meant there are some signalized intersections with horizontal heads in Florida. Most installations use vertical.

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