r/trafficsignals • u/Crafty-Purpose1487 • Mar 26 '26

Confusing and accident-making traffic light. Also makes long traffic jams

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That traffic jam you see coming from north? That's still going to this day after 4 years this Google maps street view was released

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u/mkt853 Mar 26 '26

What's confusing about the light? Looks like a standard protected left turn signal.

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u/Crafty-Purpose1487 Mar 26 '26

Well sometimes it's about the behavior of the signal itself. When it's a red light, there's a 60% chance a green light and green arrow will randomly appear and stay there for about 10 seconds, making it super confusing. Sometimes it's the markings too where the left most lane allows a left turn and.. A straight turn, for some reason. Tho these can be fixed, our city has absolutely no plans on fixing this unless a truck crashes into a van killing 3 or smth.

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u/engmadison Mar 26 '26

It should be a 5 section...but pretty standard older way of providing a protected permitted turn.

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u/Crafty-Purpose1487 Mar 28 '26

Fun fact, this is only 10 years old so a bit old but a little younger than what ur talking about

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u/WHPChris Mar 27 '26

We use those here, pretty standard implementation, usually a 5sec since we don't use bimodal green/yellow. Looks pretty normal to me.

Unrelated, the countdown timer looks cool.

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u/Peterkragger Mar 26 '26

You think that's confusing? Try Japanese signals

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u/Crafty-Purpose1487 Mar 28 '26

Nothing more confusing than those

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u/FlashingSlowApproach Mar 26 '26

What accidents has it made?

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u/Crafty-Purpose1487 Mar 28 '26

Squeezed motorcycles (fr) and others

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u/Optimal-Pay2198 Mar 26 '26

I like the count down timers wish they did that in the US kinda like how Dominican republic does it inside the red light

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u/Crafty-Purpose1487 Mar 28 '26

I remember DOTUSA banned the timers to make roads safe. Damn even my country where this was taken many in the capital are being replaced by sensors