Unique Traffic Light Mounts

[roadfro]

There is whatever the heck this is at the Tex-ified SPUI on US 75 in Plano, TX.

Looks like they used the same type of mounting brackets used for the signal head on the mast arm shaft.  I seem to recall most places using two connections for any horizontally mounted heads that are lower than the rest of the mast arm (example on MO 141 at I-44).

Usually Texas hangs them closer to the mast arm like this, moreso than your example. Maybe they are the same brackets, but I don't know why the Plano example is the way it is.

Could the heads on the opposite side of the intersection, located above the lanes the strangely mounted signals control, have potentially caused visibility issues on the approach?
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The mast pole for this is on a raised concrete pedestal for some reason. I wonder if that would've caused the signal heads to be mounted too high off the ground if they had been attached directly to the mast arm.

[Scott5114]

There is whatever the heck this is at the Tex-ified SPUI on US 75 in Plano, TX.

Looks like they used the same type of mounting brackets used for the signal head on the mast arm shaft.  I seem to recall most places using two connections for any horizontally mounted heads that are lower than the rest of the mast arm (example on MO 141 at I-44).

Usually Texas hangs them closer to the mast arm like this, moreso than your example. Maybe they are the same brackets, but I don't know why the Plano example is the way it is.

The way they wired those signal heads would probably get you fired in Las Vegas. The standard for the illuminated signs here is strict enough it even specifies the way the wire is supposed to run between the sign and the power source (it needs to be long enough that the sign swings freely, and must be positioned such that the lowest point of the wire must be below the entry ports to both the sign and the signal mast, so water drips off low point of the wire).

[kphoger]

must be positioned such that the lowest point of the wire must be below the entry ports to both the sign and the signal mast, so water drips off low point of the wire

In my business world, that's called a "drip loop".

[Scott5114]

must be positioned such that the lowest point of the wire must be below the entry ports to both the sign and the signal mast, so water drips off low point of the wire

In my business world, that's called a "drip loop".

That's what Clark County calls it too, but I figured that might be an obscure enough term that it might not convey its purpose. They are remarkably consistent on the drip loops here—I don't think I've ever seen one that's done not according to spec. Which is kind of funny, since, you know, desert...