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Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby steven1981 on Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:23 pm

I really don't know what else to say about these. :scratch:
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby 3liteguy on Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:27 pm

Moderately inspirational message.
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby Ampelfreund on Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:08 am

steven1981 wrote:I really don't know what else to say about these. :scratch:


you´re not alone :grin:
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby EdT. on Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:27 am

Confusing but they sure are purdy.
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby Econo101 on Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:06 pm

I would guess the first two with the red + arrow combo is simply saying that you need to stop before proceeding, I guess like a stop sign......sort of.

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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby Troubleshooter on Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:19 pm

The red plus arrow is a consequence of their law. Indiana used to have the same law. A green arrow had to be displayed with a red stopping the other movements. They have not yet gotten the idea that different movements can be indicated by different signal faces. All of the faces at an intersection show the same display.
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby traffic-light-man on Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:21 pm

Troubleshooter wrote:The red plus arrow is a consequence of their law. Indiana used to have the same law. A green arrow had to be displayed with a red stopping the other movements.


So, just like elsewhere in Japan, they could've just left the red aspect on the right lit... :grin:
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby Troubleshooter on Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:46 pm

traffic-light-man wrote:
Troubleshooter wrote:The red plus arrow is a consequence of their law. Indiana used to have the same law. A green arrow had to be displayed with a red stopping the other movements.


So, just like elsewhere in Japan, they could've just left the red aspect on the right lit... :grin:


No, because they have all signal faces in one direction displaying the same thing. They do not have the concept of different signal faces for different movements written into their law.
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Re: Wierd traffic signals in Japan

Postby traffic-light-man on Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:19 pm

I don't quite think you're understanding me.

On a 4 aspect face, with Red Amber Green and GA, in Japan, the signals show a red aspect with any other arrow movements, as we assume its mandatory. There's plenty of videos demonstrating this on the internet.

So why in the site videoed in the first scene of the posted video are the signals going from red to a different red aspect. There's no need for it, as I've pointed out in the last paragraph.

It could've cycled like this, without harm:

Red (right)
Red (right) + arrows (below)
Amber (centre)
Red (right)

As opposed to this, which is a bit pointless when both methods achieve the same outcome, which is a signal face with red lit whilst the arrows are on:

Red (right)
Red (left) + arrows (below)
Amber (centre)
Red (right)
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