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Author Topic: Do old Truss Style Mast Arms still exist in IL.  (Read 8404 times)

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Re: Do old Truss Style Mast Arms still exist in IL.
« Reply #25 on: July 23, 2021, 11:20:57 PM »

Trusses, trusses everywhere, and a relatively new build location. I-55 at I-355

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6976171,-88.0433357,3a,75y,58.96h,94.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMXPbut8fWLUcNGWFEc5R_Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I'm not seeing any mast arms in that GSV shot...

I believe they meant the streetlights.
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Re: Do old Truss Style Mast Arms still exist in IL.
« Reply #26 on: July 24, 2021, 10:52:42 PM »

^ Trussed streetlights haven't gone out of fashion in Illinois.  They are still in the Highway Standards (see Pages 368/423 and 372/423)
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Re: Do old Truss Style Mast Arms still exist in IL.
« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2021, 12:02:45 AM »

Here's a classic example at 35th Street and Central in Cicero.  it even has the old 12-8-8 setup for the pole-mounted signals.
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Re: Do old Truss Style Mast Arms still exist in IL.
« Reply #28 on: July 25, 2021, 01:05:09 PM »

^ Trussed streetlights haven't gone out of fashion in Illinois.  They are still in the Highway Standards (see Pages 368/423 and 372/423)

However, the MN like davit style streetlights have become more common throughout the state, even in D1. Again, I am not a fan of this style in Illinois. Downstate, outside of D1, the aluminum truss style has become even less common (maybe except in D8, where I have seen installations in the past 10 years become somewhat common again). That said, I am sure this thread was referring to the stoplight structures, which are basically a dying breed in IL, though, still, plenty of legacy installations, luckily, still exist.
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