Cities with highest concentration of DONT WALK signs remaining

Started by Buffaboy, October 02, 2015, 08:38:39 PM

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What cities continue to use the Don't Walk sign? I'm guessing NYC, but I have no clue so I'm asking you.
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mariethefoxy

Quote from: Buffaboy on October 02, 2015, 08:38:39 PM
What cities continue to use the Don't Walk sign? I'm guessing NYC, but I have no clue so I'm asking you.

Nope, NYC switched to the Hand and Man ones in 2001, and the word ones are all gone.

cl94

Nope. NYC has very few, if any. They were one of the first places to switch over. Niagara Falls actually has quite a few. I saw them somewhere else recently, but I can't remember where.
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Mohkfry

Last time I was in Auburn, Indiana, almost every signalized intersection had Don't walk/walk worded signals. Gary, IN is loaded with them as well, but many of them are no longer maintained. Elkhart, IN still has a few, but no where near the countless amount of them that were in service a few years ago. Monticello, IN has two intersections with them in the downtown area. One intersection has walk/don't walk signals, and the other intersection has wait/walk signals. I'll post a link to the wait/walk signals in a little bit for those of you interested.


Here's the  intersection with the wait/walk signals,

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7447959,-86.763442,3a,26.1y,245.82h,83.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se5faXlTb_5qhZtjWuJgCbg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

corco

There are no lights in the entire counties of Granite or Petroleum County, Montana that have a hand signal.

peterj920

Ashwaubenon, WI has quite a few signals remaining, and the lights that still say don't walk/walk haven't had any LED conversions yet.  Holmgren Way was reconstructed around 1998, and the signals haven't been modified since.

freebrickproductions

All of the pedestrian signals in Tuscumbia, AL are worded.
Florence, AL and Bessemer, AL used to be mostly worded peds, but Florence upgraded all of their neon peds to LED and Bessemer has probably replaced all or theirs by now.
All but one of the peds in Talladega, AL are worded.
Gadsden, AL also has quite a few worded peds. However, the ones that have working don't walks don't cycle and the ones that cycle only have working walks.
There are a lot of other towns in Alabama that have mostly worded peds or all worded peds, but those peds are poorly maintained and don't work all that well.
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Quote from: cl94 on October 02, 2015, 09:44:21 PM
Nope. NYC has very few, if any. They were one of the first places to switch over. Niagara Falls actually has quite a few. I saw them somewhere else recently, but I can't remember where.

They're actually non-existent there. The last survivors that the D.O.T. somehow forgot existed near Yankees Stadium in the Bronx in the late 2000s. They have been since retro-fitted to modern LED hand and man inserts.

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Some areas of Trenton in New Jersey still have worded pedestrian signals in use. Some date back to the 1970s and 1960s.

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roadfro

As far as I'm aware, there are not any "worded" pedestrian signals remaining in the major urbanized areas of Nevada. Most ped signals in the Vegas and Reno areas have been converted to LED countdowns.
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traffic light guy

Years back Chester PA had hundreds of DONT WALK/WALK signals, most of them were 1970s model Eagle Flatbacks, but they all got replaced between 2009 and 2012.

Duke87

In general your best bet to find anything old would be to look in run down cities where they don't have the money to replace stuff.

Or in isolated rural areas where it's easy for the people in charge to miss things and availability of money can also be an issue. But, not likely to find too many traffic signals, new or old, in such places.
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TravelingBethelite

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There's still a couple hanging around Bethel, CT, like this one on Route 53:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3761692,-73.4249853,3a,15y,59.5h,86.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfTpzSE71Gyjm8PBnhW9_Mg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

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Most of the remaining walk/don't walk signals I've seen remaining in my part of the DFW area, strangely enough, are in University Park.  That is one of the more economically well-off parts of the area.  Pretty much all the other suburbs are populated with a majority of hand/man ped signals.

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roadman65

I am wondering about NYC being there are thousands (and counting up all the crosswalk heads millions) of traffic signals.  If they replaced all of them in 2001 as part of a project, it had to take months to change them all, even if you have two or three different crews working per borough considering that it would take anywhere from five to ten minutes per head to remove and replace the lens covering and inner lightbulbs with the new hardware.
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Quote from: roadman65 on October 04, 2015, 04:37:47 PM
I am wondering about NYC being there are thousands (and counting up all the crosswalk heads millions) of traffic signals.  If they replaced all of them in 2001 as part of a project, it had to take months to change them all, even if you have two or three different crews working per borough considering that it would take anywhere from five to ten minutes per head to remove and replace the lens covering and inner lightbulbs with the new hardware.

The project commenced in 2000 in Queens, following Staten Island. The DOT then began to retrofit pedestrian signals in the other boroughs later. It did not take one year to complete.

Instead, it took about four years for NYCDOT to successfully upgrade most of New York City's signals.

Here's a brief timeline...

Staten Island and Queens (2000-2003). Brooklyn (2001-2003 or 2004). Manhattan and the Bronx (2001-2008 or so).


Of course, some intersections were forgotten, but were discovered by the DOT in later years. Like I said in my previous comment here, the last intersection to my knowledge was upgraded near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx before the end of the 2000s. They're non-existent.

roadman65

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Phillipsburg,+NJ/@40.682424,-75.181705,3a,66.8y,312.69h,99.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1yp0WE2vfZabPmLna-VIxw!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c46da371024c57:0xee9545623288de2
I see Phillipsburg, NJ got rid of their two section ones and now have gone standard.  I always remembered them riding along NJ 122 as the white WALK would flash as the city had decent signal timings unlike most now.
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For those that are interested, here's that intersection from the Bronx that had incandescent pedestrian signals still in use. Circa 2007. Courtesy of Google Map.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8246408,-73.9285122,3a,75y,52.07h,83.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCG85-sebfDCaKsGC0Qvpjg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1


You have to move the small man around in order to see the entire intersection.


Note, too, that the traffic signals were still completely incandescent!

PHLBOS

There's a couple of signals near me that still have worded pedestrian signals.  Interestingly, one pole at each of the two intersections have symbol pedestrian signals mixed in.

This one on the right was the result of a pole replacement due to the original getting knocked down in an accident several years ago.

A bit too new for GSV, but this particular set of ped signalheads was recently retrofitted with symbolized signals.  Note: these signals date back the mid-90s (the previous set of signals had no left turn signal cycles) and were one of the last ones erected with worded pedestrain signals.
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roadman

Quote from: Revive 755 on October 03, 2015, 11:12:27 PM
Evanston, IL still has a decent number.



I can't help but notice the irony here, given that Evanston is home to Northwestern University, one of the country's leading traffic engineering think tanks.
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Big John

Quote from: PHLBOS on October 05, 2015, 10:05:15 AM
There's a couple of signals near me that still have worded pedestrian signals.  Interestingly, one pole at each of the two intersections have symbol pedestrian signals mixed in.

This one on the right was the result of a pole replacement due to the original getting knocked down in an accident several years ago.

Off-topic:  If you pan kitty-corner of that pole, you will see the walk signals above the roadway signal.  It don't think that is allowed.

PHLBOS

Quote from: Big John on October 05, 2015, 12:10:33 PMOff-topic:  If you pan kitty-corner of that pole, you will see the walk signals above the roadway signal.  It don't think that is allowed.
IIRC, the damaged pole assembly that the newer one replaced also had the pedestrian signals mounted above the roadway signals (facing eastbound Academy Ave.) as well.

That The entire signal assembly was probably installed back in the early 1970s and was likely a goof that was never picked up nor corrected; especially since the roadway signal is for the minor street, Academy Ave.
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Mohkfry

Quote from: PHLBOS on October 05, 2015, 12:56:36 PM
Quote from: Big John on October 05, 2015, 12:10:33 PMOff-topic:  If you pan kitty-corner of that pole, you will see the walk signals above the roadway signal.  It don't think that is allowed.
IIRC, the damaged pole assembly that the newer one replaced also had the pedestrian signals mounted above the roadway signals (facing eastbound Academy Ave.) as well.

That signal was probably installed back in the early 1970s and was likely a goof that was never picked up nor corrected; especially since the roadway signal is for the minor street, Academy Ave.

If you move the little street view man over a little bit and look at the 2007 image, you'll see it was a normal set up on that corner. Only the one pole had its pedestrian signals mounted above the vehicular signal.

Pan the camera around to see the whole intersection.
This is the 2007 image.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9035447,-75.3041992,3a,75y,155.63h,85.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svyiuvWjrPbO__2QWoH1y3w!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!6m1!1e1

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