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[macappleteacher]

Almost all of the lights in Lincoln,NE are horizontal. No stories about color blind problems yet

[EmiteE]

I like Horizontal Traffic Lights, simply because it's more pedestrian friendly.(How is that? Just go out and stand on the corner, At the side walk, look you head up, could you see the red and yellow light clearly? Does it get block by the water fence? [the out forward steel similar to the peak of a cap] ) Remember when you are hurry to get somewhere (school, office, etc) and yet the pedestrian traffic lights is always slower then the car traffic light. In that particular moment you did like to be some sec faster, unless be ahead of famous American size slow walker.  








Horizontal Light in South American, China, and so on   








Vertical Traffic Light of American city







Further more when you driving, do you not have experience that under that strong blowing wind that the vertical traffic light actually swing?

Edited by EmiteE, 02 July 2011 - 10:19 AM.

[Icetera]

EmiteE, on 02 July 2011 - 09:18 AM, said:

Further more when you driving, do you not have experience that under that strong blowing wind that the vertical traffic light actually swing?

I had always thought that the horizontal lights were due to wind as I always see them in the Southwest U.S.  I noticed in the Tokyo region that all the lights were horizontal and wind is not a huge issue out there, so perhaps it is just simply that some regions developed their lights in different orientations than others without any true reasoning behind it?

[Jack_Stuart]

It depends on a kind of highway. I think many highways is not ideal for horizont traffic lights.