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Category Archives: Signal/Signage
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Construction, Freeway, Patreon Locked, Safety, Signal/Signage
So, they’re painting ORANGE LINES on freeways now?
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Patreon Locked, Safety, Signal/Signage, Urban Issues
Los Angeles THREW AWAY all their RED-LIGHT cameras?
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Patreon Locked, Safety, Signal/Signage, Urban Issues
Can this “HAWK” STOP LIGHT make walking feel SAFE again?
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The light turns yellow and you find yourself in a panic. Should I slam on my brakes and risk getting rear-ended? Or should I run the yellow— and possibly in the process, the red too? Every stop light on the planet has one of these “A BAD PLACES.” Radar technology can act like a life […]
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Mar
Mar
Getting a red light ticket feels really crummy. When yellow lights (“change intervals”) are set long enough, red light runners vanish. For safety, why don’t we double or triple the length of yellow lights? Check out pt. 2: Our brains and yellow lights — https://youtu.be/P_EmAKRrlBc ——————————- Sources cited: ——————————- “Guidelines for Timing Yellow and All-Red […]
Freeway, Patreon Locked, Signal/Signage, Urban Issues
Why do some freeway ramps have an extra red light?
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Dec
Dec
All you want to do is get on the freeway. Then a seemingly superfluous traffic signal stops you. Do ramp meters work?
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Aug
Aug
How does a traffic signal knows when to turn green? Especially late at night when you are the only driver on the road. In this video, I chat with two traffic signal experts: Mohammed Bendelhoum, an engineer with the California Dept. of Transportation (Caltrans) and Brian Girardo (Iteris) explore the history of vehicle detection (induction […]
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Nov
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Signs used to look different at night. Here’s why.
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Aug
Aug
It’s called a ‘Continuous Flow Intersection.’ I take a quick look at traffic signal engineering and how this new type of displaced left-turn improves traffic flow by 30 percent. Enjoy my video? I wouldn’t say “no” to a chocolate shake 🙂 https://www.patreon.com/roadguyrob
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Ouch! That’s what happens Shaq gets distracted in his Porche 911 convertible and forgets to duck. I phoned it into the city engineer as soon as I saw it. The phone went to voicemail. So I called the police dispatcher, and she says they’d already gotten a lot of calls about this already this morning. I […]
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Have you seen these signs along Wilshire Blvd? I don’t often drive Wilshire. But when I do, it always seems to be the peak of afternoon rush hour. (Maybe Wilshire always feels crowded?) So as I sit at another red light, I look at these signs and just shake my head in frustration. It turns […]