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Nellonfury
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Post Number: 92
Registered: 03-2005
Posted From: 68.43.156.135
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 4:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I know all of you are not into traffic signals but you already notice there are LOTS of new ones are installing all over the city including 8 Mile, Van Dyke, Hoover, Gratiot and other intersections.My friend also told me there's a new one at Fort and Griswold in downtown at Campus Martius.Here's two questions that my friend wants to know.
1. Will we see more new ones in downtown soon?
2. The old ones in downtown with "stop signs" at some intersections,is the city planing to take them down?
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Everyman
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Post Number: 34
Registered: 11-2005
Posted From: 24.136.14.239
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 4:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Benedict XVI must be very busy
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Detroit_stylin
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Post Number: 2462
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 66.202.227.12
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 4:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

lol every...

Poping huh....
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Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 11
Registered: 10-2004
Posted From: 69.242.223.42
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 4:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How does one say "Stop" auf deutsch?
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Skulker
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Post Number: 3506
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 67.103.104.93
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 4:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

How does one say "Stop" auf deutsch?




Hogan, come back here!
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Dag
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Username: Dag

Post Number: 184
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 141.211.222.70
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 9:04 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well, traffic signals are all well and good but I would be a little more excited if they started enforcing basic traffic laws and what not. Enforcing the smallest crimes will lead to a greater crackdown on the net crime rate within the city.

Yeah, I know, I am channeling CL.
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Fishtoes2000
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Post Number: 73
Registered: 06-2005
Posted From: 69.14.26.135
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:43 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't know about Hoover, but all the rest are state roads so it's likely an MDOT initiative.
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Gravitymachine
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Post Number: 849
Registered: 05-2005
Posted From: 198.208.159.18
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:50 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

new signals wired up around WSU on warren...just haven't been "deployed" yet
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Atl_runner
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Post Number: 1811
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.209.118.72
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The Real Reason

Really.. this is the reason. Total conversion of the traffic light system in the U.S. to L.E.D. Will have massive impact in reducing energy consumption.
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Mcnamara
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Post Number: 26
Registered: 06-2005
Posted From: 204.22.230.98
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:55 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

They are part of a grand from the USDOT and MDOT to upgrade traffic control devices in Detroit. More are on the way. they are better timed and have LED lights, use less energy and the blubs have a longer life.
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Ro_resident
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Post Number: 141
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 63.85.13.248
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You may not see total conversion to LED lights in Michigan (and other parts of the country).

Yes, there are many advantages to LEDs, they do use less energy to operate.

However, they are prone to icing because they generate less heat than incandescent lights. Of course, the manufacturers could incorporate a heating element in the lens for clearing ice.

It'll be interesting to see if LEDs are adopted by many agencies here.
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Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 18
Registered: 10-2004
Posted From: 69.242.223.42
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"total conversion"

This term keeps poping up.
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Rberlin
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Post Number: 359
Registered: 06-2005
Posted From: 70.229.236.200
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:38 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Livernoisyard:

"Halt." I think it's diffrent for stop signs though.
Anyone know Latin or Italian? He probably speaks those better than German now anyway.
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Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 22
Registered: 10-2004
Posted From: 69.242.223.42
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Being somewhat fluent "auf deutsch," it's probably "Halt! Vorfahrt gewähren."
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Tortfeasor
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Post Number: 431
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 192.217.231.54
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 3:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

German word for stop is "HALT!" but stop signs are the same as here in the good ole U.S. of A., "STOP."

"Halt! Vorfahrt gewaehren" is the meaning of the stop sign.
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Jsmyers
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Username: Jsmyers

Post Number: 1412
Registered: 12-2003
Posted From: 209.131.7.68
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 5:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

It'll be interesting to see if LEDs are adopted by many agencies here.




Every City of Ann Arbor signal is LED.
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Busterwmu
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Post Number: 196
Registered: 09-2004
Posted From: 67.102.76.248
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What kills me is that there are the new lights going up right in the middle of the CBD that are on metal "booms" which hang out over the road. They give a clean appearence, are easier to see, and are what is found almost everywhere across the country.

A block away, you may have a pair of "classic" traffic lights, which may date from the 1950s or 1960s. These are smaller, made completely of steel, and are strung over the intersection from "booms" as well, supported by wires from the top of a pole. Identifyable by their classic appearence and unique details of an era cone by: columns with vertialve lines for poles, and ornamental shells at the base. There are two pairs right in front of the Fox. These lights used to be on every corner in the city, and a major replacement project is currently underway it seems, even though these signals have been doing their job just for for the past 40 or so years.

Another block away, and the newest light are going, up which are the typical cheap Michigan design. Known as "durasigs", these newest signals are stung over an intersection witha million different lights hung from them at many angles. They are very large, and are occassionally hit by semis if they are hanging too low. They are hard to see because of the angle in which they are strung over a corner. I don't think a single other state in the country uses a cheap style like this. On top of all of that, they're just plain ugly.

Why is it that the nice downtown boom signals only are on selected intersections, while nearby the ugly new Durasigs hang imposingly over other corners? You would think they would want to have a STANDARD system in place, just as the "classic" design was a standard during the late 50s-the 70s. And maybe since the rest of the country uses many variations of the boom design, we could join the club and do it too. And they look better!
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Boshna
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Post Number: 122
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 68.60.137.62
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

$, buster

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