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by **steven1981** on Wed May 02, 2012 10:39 am

Mike80 wrote:What was the purpose of the short visors? I would think the longer visors would help against sun glare and keep opposing traffic from seeing the lens from the side.

As was already mentioned, the short visors had normally faced a curb of a street. They generally protected the entire traffic signal itself from being clipped by a large vehicle, such as a truck, for example.

The one that I remember was a 1960s Marbelite four-way. It had only one pair of short visors that faced a crosswalk/curb. Forget where exactly in Queens it was located at.

by **MN-20** on Wed May 02, 2012 11:26 am

Where curbside installation cases visors to be damaged by passing vehicles, the Marflex visor will snap back into shape

After flying off the signal and bouncing on the curb.

I've seen regular signals in New York with extremely short tunnel visors for the same reason...

Jesse

by **3liteguy** on Wed May 02, 2012 11:38 am

Jersey had a habit of just losing the visor completely on those signals too close to the curb.

If only those truckers knew how to drive.

Spoiler:

by **Mike80** on Wed May 02, 2012 7:56 pm

Crunge98 wrote:
Ive noticed all the ruleta's that were real close to the curb had the short visors.

That reminds me of this photo from Shorpy...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/6231?size=_original

by **EdT.** on Fri May 04, 2012 7:56 pm

Mike80 wrote:
Crunge98 wrote:
Ive noticed all the ruleta's that were real close to the curb had the short visors.

That reminds me of this photo from Shorpy...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/6231?size=_original

Excellent example (and excellent pic!).

by **jab8356** on Fri May 04, 2012 8:42 pm

3liteguy wrote:Jersey had a habit of just losing the visor completely on those signals too close to the curb.

If only those truckers knew how to drive.

Dodging Jerry's bat in 3...2...1...

I just saw this...it's too late and I just don't care right now.