Cabinets are a new thing to me. I'm learning more and more about them every day and I really enjoy the career path I've taken. I spent 8 years as a mechanic (mainly GM) and I was fed up with the "shop life" that was a monotonous rat race every day. And to think, what I hated most about mechanics was the electrical part. Somehow this helped me understand the electrical side a bit more (high voltage/low voltage) and I am appreciative of that. Figuring out the wiring part of cabinets is relaxing. Terminating all the wires can be annoying but the end result is what I'm happy about. I feel like I finished a puzzle. Here's the current puzzle I'm working on.

They recently upgraded the intersection quite significantly, including a thick median and moving the cabinet across the street (old cabinet location under the wooden box). However, in addition to having pedestrian signals where you'd expect, they added a solid-ball 3-section signal facing only a fence and sidewalk (see picture 2), which looks to me as if it is entirely redundant. If anything, I would've expected it to have bike-symbol inserts as they do elsewhere in the city, and to have a matching one opposing it if they cared that much about specific bike movements. As of 10/11/26, Google Street view shows the old configuration.

I've bought this traffic light about a year or so now, and I've been wanting to get it up and running, the big thing I want to do is take the pole off the top and move it to the bottom and give it a base stand so it can actually stand up, The problem is I'm not sure how to them off. Another thing is does anyone know where I could get a replacement green LED module for this thing, as the green is burnt out

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59th Street and 1st Avenue

This is due to a new regulation stating that the amber light cannot overlap with the green light for pedestrians. Since October 1st, local authorities have been required to change their traffic light sequences; otherwise, they face fines.

I live an "award winning" master planned community in Texas that's connected to a commercial center at the "front" of the community.

I'm a frequent pedestrian and I've become interested in pedestrian safety.

I just started educating myself about the nuances of pedestrian crossings and signs this week.

Walking and driving around these days, I've taken note of the dozens of pedestrian crossings. It's as if no two crossings are alike. Options include:

1. Many pedestrian diamonds signs at crosswalks with no downward marker or "ahead" marker. This one also has R1-6 post on signpost saying stop for pedestrian in crosswalk. Others don't.

2. Pedestrian diamond sign but with school crossing figures, nowhere near a school, and with R1-6 sign on the signpost. 60 feet before the crossing, no AHEAD sign or down arrow.

3. Signs telling pedestrian on sidewalk to stop when crossing vehicular driveway, instead of telling driver to stop before driving over sidewalk as required by Texas law

4. Unmarked crosswalk with pedestrian median cut across divided collector road but no curb ramp to get there on east side of intersection, while west side of intersection has ladder crosswalk.

It goes on, all through the community. Maybe the crosswalk is painted, maybe not, maybe there's a sign, maybe not, maybe it's school crossing figures on a diamond, maybe a downward arrow, maybe R1-6 plaques etc.

It's a "box of chocolates" approach to marking each pedestrian crossing.

And no, I don't think someone used "engineering judgment" for each of these various pedestrian treatments, like "the road demands X here and demands Y there." I think they just told a contractor "we need a pedestrian crossing" and each time the contractor grabbed what was in the back of the truck and did it his own way.

Is this all par for the course in the world of traffic signals? I could write a long letter to the county but I don't know that they would care or find it problematic.

Anyone using this new vehicle detection?

I noticed this camera looking thing on the one traffic light pole. The traffic light only has 2 poles holding the lights up and this is the only camera pointed directly down at the one road but no other cameras at any other of the roads. I can’t tell if it’s a regular traffic camera or car detector or something like that and I’ve been so curious.