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French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby LarryC39 on Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:18 pm

How do French pedestrian signals usually operate? Do they just switch back and forth between red and green man? Do they have a dark period in between? Do they flash?
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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby traffic-light-man on Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:30 am

From memory, they flash the green man before returning to red, but don't quote me on that, it's been a while since I was last in France.
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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby traffictechgreg on Sun Nov 04, 2012 6:26 pm

Unless it has been changed since I've been to Europe in 1998, the green man flashes for the ped clearence. The same went for Belguim and the Netherlands
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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby Troy on Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:32 pm

With the French pedestrian signals, history shows the WALK usually works perfect until trouble or war shows up, and then they run. :tease:
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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby eagleyes on Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:48 pm

Troy wrote:With the French pedestrian signals, history shows the WALK usually works perfect until trouble or war shows up, and then they run. :tease:


You aren't German, are you? :shock:
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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby Troy on Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:57 pm

eagleyes wrote:
Troy wrote:With the French pedestrian signals, history shows the WALK usually works perfect until trouble or war shows up, and then they run. :tease:


You aren't German, are you? :shock:


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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby LarryC39 on Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:19 pm

If my notes serve me correctly, this is the same pattern that is the modern style in Sweden and UK/Ireland's Standard Cycle Pelican Crossing.
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Re: French Pedestrian Signal Patterns

Postby traffic-light-man on Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:12 am

It may very well be. From experience, though, other EU countries tend to have the flash rate quite a bit higher than ours, almost like a blink (I think it's because the lamp is lit for shorter time than it's off during the flash cycle, whereas ours are equal on/off times).
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