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Flashing WALK

Postby 3Mfanatic on Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:39 pm

In tinkering with my LMD 8000 last night, I discovered not only how to set the ped clear to flash through the yellow but how to enable flashing walk. I turned it on briefly for sticks and giggles but disabled it as I'm not a fan of how it looks.

My question is this: when was flashing walk prohibited (I know it is in the 2009 MUTCD) and why was it initiated in the first place? It seems kind of unnecessary to me. When I met Steve Tutty in 2011, he had his ped signals set to flashing walk and apparently Denver used to do it although I can't remember if he told me why or not. I don't believe it was ever standard practice around here.
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Re: Flashing WALK

Postby SignalLab on Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:36 am

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Re: Flashing WALK

Postby EPAC-EPIC-MARC on Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:25 am

My EPAC M52 with the 2007 software revision of SE-PAC still has the option for flashing walk grandfathered in
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Re: Flashing WALK

Postby 3Mfanatic on Wed Oct 09, 2013 1:39 pm

Thanks, Dee. :hello: I knew it had to have been discussed here before.
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Re: Flashing WALK

Postby traffictechgreg on Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:13 am

EPAC-EPIC-MARC wrote:My EPAC M52 with the 2007 software revision of SE-PAC still has the option for flashing walk grandfathered in


In the EPAC, we sometimes use the flashing walk output to drive flashing preempt confirmation beacons. :grin:
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