Traffic Lights for Residential Driveways

Started by Alex4897, November 07, 2013, 08:08:13 PM

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sbeaver44

#100
November 13, 2020, 12:16:20 AM  
US 322 at the southern terminus of PA 934 near Lebanon has a light facing PA 934 for a farm.

jeffandnicole

#101
February 02, 2025, 01:02:45 PM   Last Edit: February 02, 2025, 03:01:59 PM by jeffandnicole
The is a weird intersection in total because it's tied to a branch-off 100 feet away. But for this thread: The main road, Kings Hwy, generally has 8" signal heads. The driveway off to the left gets 12" signal heads.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7YxmbhxBG4et63RCA?g_st=ac

LilianaUwU

#102
February 02, 2025, 01:11:46 PM  
Another one I found is this residential driveway at Boulevard René-Lévesque and Rue Gérard-Morrisset in Québec City.
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wxfree

#103
February 02, 2025, 02:49:03 PM  
A similar topic, probably not worthy of its own discussion, is what I call private lanes.  These are lanes on public roads that serve only one or a few homes.  I know of two examples.  This one is in Hillsboro, Texas along the I-35 frontage road.  Southbound traffic moves from a two-way road to a one-way road.  Northbound traffic originates only from the driveway (or any U-turns that happen here).  Further north are a few more homes.  The first public road intersection to the north is a county road about 3/4 mile back.

Street View imagery

The construction plans call for a similar lane configuration along the business route of the recently opened Cresson bypass on US 377, but it has not been Street Viewed yet.
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Big John

#104
February 02, 2025, 02:59:33 PM  
Interim approval for temporary traffic signal involving private driveways in a construction zone where only one lane of traffic is open, sorry PDF: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/interim_approval/ia23/ia23.pdf

wxfree

#105
February 02, 2025, 04:31:48 PM   Last Edit: February 02, 2025, 04:39:37 PM by wxfree
Quote from: Big John on February 02, 2025, 02:59:33 PMInterim approval for temporary traffic signal involving private driveways in a construction zone where only one lane of traffic is open, sorry PDF: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/interim_approval/ia23/ia23.pdf

That's interesting.  A road near me has been rebuilt and had multiple one-lane two-way sections for a few years.  The practice seems to be putting the controlling signals far enough apart so that you can't see one end from the other end.  When a bridge is down to one lane, they put the signals on the other side of the hill at the top of the valley, resulting in a long one-lane section.  This results in private drives and public roads intersecting the one-lane section.  Someone who's unwilling to wait can just go around the signal with no real problem.  Since the whole stretch, minus the bridge, has two lanes with one blocked by barrels, they can just pull over to the closed lane if anyone is going the other direction.

This practice bothers me.  To clarify, I'm referring to a rural road with light traffic.  If they put a signal on each end of the bridge, people would see that no one is approaching from the other side and just ignore the signal and go through.  To prevent this, they have a mile-long one-lane stretch around a 50-foot long bridge, so you can't see if anyone is approaching from the signal location.  This results in longer waiting on a road on which about 70% of the time there isn't any traffic during passing through a green phase, even with the long span.  I stop, of course, but I still think unpleasant things about the people who planned this.  If this were a busy road where there's never a break in traffic it would be different, but I really think that if there's little traffic you could just put yield signs on the side where the lane closes and maybe a warning sign on the other side and trust people not to drive like suicidal maniacs (who have the patience to wait for opposing traffic to approach).

I've turned from one of the county roads onto the one-lane stretch.  There's no signal, but I had no worry because I could easily go to the closed lane at any point other than the short stretch where there's actually no other lane.  In places where there's traffic and only one lane, the signals at homes would be helpful.
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RobbieL2415

#106
February 03, 2025, 11:53:37 AM  
This driveway for a church, pictured here before the signal was replaced with a new one, now has a signal facing it.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/E7Wd1xyqKTJmLTR39

freebrickproductions

#107
May 04, 2025, 07:09:04 PM  
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jeffandnicole

#108
May 04, 2025, 07:56:08 PM  

freebrickproductions

#109
May 04, 2025, 08:03:57 PM  
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

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Quillz

#110
May 05, 2025, 01:07:41 PM  

formulanone

#111
May 07, 2025, 02:11:07 PM   Last Edit: May 07, 2025, 03:23:02 PM by formulanone
Lake Ida and Rainberry Boulevard in Delray Beach, Florida. Rainberry appears to be a gated community, but not the homes on the side of the street.
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