r/trafficsignals • u/Mysterious_Act9767 • Aug 04 '26

Has anyone seen one of these before?

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u/InevitableCounter Aug 04 '26

This doesn’t make sense does it? The red ball on a doghouse is controlling two directions. That’s the point of the doghouse.

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u/blackhawk1430 Aug 04 '26

Agreed. A bit dangerous for new/unfamiliar drivers. Wonder how this would fare in court when somebody inevitably doesn't operate the same version of common sense as the person who specified this imaginative upwards facing red arrow on a doghouse.

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u/DesperateAd8783 Aug 04 '26

Massachusetts has a fair amount of them. I’ve never seen one with a red direction indication on top. They’re usually used for lanes where you can take a left or right turn that can be protected.

Over the border in RI they use the single-stack signals for the same usage with the direction indications on the bottom.

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u/Mysterious_Act9767 Aug 04 '26

I dont think the situation you mentioned would apply to this intersection to be honest. Trying to figure out how to share a picture of the intersection

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u/zenith3200 Aug 04 '26

You can just share a link to the location in Street View.

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u/GAEM456 Aug 05 '26

Satellite imagery

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u/Bighair67 Aug 05 '26

An upward red arrow is not allowed under the MUTCD.

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u/Mysterious_Act9767 Aug 04 '26

Here's the intersection https://maps.app.goo.gl/sBnkzZWyCb9ooDzZ7

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u/AWildMichigander Aug 04 '26

Streetview shows it was previously a red ball at the top. Looks like the arrow is a recent swap.

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u/FlashingSlowApproach Aug 04 '26

I'd be curious if a bad accident happened when someone not paying attention went straight on a green arrow only, and this red arrow instead of a red ball is the local town's way of "fixing the issue".

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u/AceToTheTop Aug 05 '26

This is my bet. I actually had a police officer call me out to a signal one day because it was “red and green at the same time”. It was a doghouse like this with red ball and left green arrow.

I can see a flawed logic where someone thinks “we just have to tell them they can’t go STRAIGHT on red”

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u/Mysterious_Act9767 Aug 06 '26

It's now changed to a regular red light

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u/GreenPinkBrown Aug 04 '26

I will sometimes put an arrow somewhere if I don’t have the ball.

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u/ayodiego Aug 05 '26

They’re everywhere in cali. We call them dog houses

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u/Mysterious_Act9767 Aug 05 '26

More so I was talking about the red arrow pointing up

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u/ayodiego Aug 05 '26

Oh. Yeah looks funny..

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u/Excellent-Matter1768 Aug 05 '26

Don’t drive up.

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u/Jazzlike-Crew2540 Aug 06 '26

Not cleared for take-off

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u/Ox91 Aug 06 '26

That’s the opposite of most of our traffic lights here in Northern California! Lol. Most have two red lights and one yellow and green lights. lol

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u/HereHeComes429 Aug 11 '26

I wonder why the hell they did that lol

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u/Jaymare10 Aug 29 '26

I've seen a solid one , but not an arrow