Abandoned traffic signals

Started by roadman65, January 14, 2022, 11:24:22 PM

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roadman65

https://goo.gl/maps/izr4iD68s4R4tZY98

This one in Newark, NJ along an industrial access road near the NJ Turnpike. It has signal heads with visors falling off, but the mast arms are positioned where there once was another road crossing under the turnpike that no longer exists.
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SkyPesos

Every other signal in East St Louis, IL.

Hobart

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US71

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CJResotko

There are these abandoned traffic lights near a high school in Detroit, Michigan. The lot they're on was once a driver's training course.
https://youtu.be/dIoeF9llxbo?t=30

RobbieL2415

This (now long gone) assembly, to my knowledge, was never in operation. End of US 6 in Provincetown, MA, circa 1998.
Probably not enough beach traffic to warrant it being turned on.
https://www.usends.com/uploads/7/5/0/3/75032313/787923721_orig.jpg

SilverMustang2011

Here's one in Chattanooga, TN that you can see heading onto I-24 at the split:

https://goo.gl/maps/sPFqrS8yUqYxfMp49

KCRoadFan

On a 2014 trip to New Orleans, I remember seeing some in the section hardest hit by Katrina (Lower 9th Ward).

andrepoiy

Here's one in Providence RI. Providence didn't really strike me as a poor or run-down area so I was kind of surprised to find this abandoned signal downtown.




https://goo.gl/maps/4NGyUQqtvHQNYVwi8

mrsman

The warrants for traffic signals are based on traffic flow.  Given the very narrow streets and likely reduced traffic in downtowns because of WFH, it likely no longer meets the warrants so it wsa converted to an all way stop.

PurdueBill

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Quote from: mrsman on August 27, 2023, 07:40:25 PM
The warrants for traffic signals are based on traffic flow.  Given the very narrow streets and likely reduced traffic in downtowns because of WFH, it likely no longer meets the warrants so it wsa converted to an all way stop.

If so, they should either remove them or put them on flashing red.  Just leaving the dark signals isn't kosher.

Adding: If you look at street view from 2019, you can see that they were flashing then.  It has been an all-way stop as far back as street view goes (2007).
If now dark, that is no good--at the right angles, the un-visored overhead green appears brighter even though it is off because it has no visor.  They ought to either take them down or make sure they flash.

Big John

Quote from: PurdueBill on August 27, 2023, 08:22:06 PM
Quote from: mrsman on August 27, 2023, 07:40:25 PM
The warrants for traffic signals are based on traffic flow.  Given the very narrow streets and likely reduced traffic in downtowns because of WFH, it likely no longer meets the warrants so it wsa converted to an all way stop.

If so, they should either remove them or put them on flashing red.  Just leaving the dark signals isn't kosher.
or bagging them.

PurdueBill

Quote from: Big John on August 27, 2023, 08:24:40 PM
Quote from: PurdueBill on August 27, 2023, 08:22:06 PM
Quote from: mrsman on August 27, 2023, 07:40:25 PM
The warrants for traffic signals are based on traffic flow.  Given the very narrow streets and likely reduced traffic in downtowns because of WFH, it likely no longer meets the warrants so it wsa converted to an all way stop.

If so, they should either remove them or put them on flashing red.  Just leaving the dark signals isn't kosher.
or bagging them.

If it is as long-term a conversion to all-way stop as it is (over 15 years), then the bags may not last long enough through the New England winters (or a hurricane)!  :P

D-Dey65

Lakeland, Florida is getting rid of a lot of them and replacing them with 4-way stop signs. I'm worried they might overdo it.


freebrickproductions

Quote from: SilverMustang2011 on July 15, 2023, 03:08:25 PM
Here's one in Chattanooga, TN that you can see heading onto I-24 at the split:

https://goo.gl/maps/sPFqrS8yUqYxfMp49

I remember those were in flash mode for a very long time. Guessing the power to them must've finally been shut-off.
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