Red and yellow before green

Some vintage traffic signals in my collection showing the red and amber before green sequence that most traffic lights in Victoria, Australia once had. It is very rare here now.

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[LmBsY]

I remember this light sequencing being used in many places in Melbourne several years back, yeah pretty rare now. I notice it is still being used in Europe on my recent trip, which makes sense, seeing as most of the population there drive manual transmission.

[emdB67]

@LmBsY Most, if not all of the "opening ambers" still left around Melbourne would be pedestrian / school crossings. I'm not aware of any intersections left now, the last ones I knew of having been replaced in 2010 and 2011. They shall probably all be gone by the end of this year.

I don't live in Melbourne, so there could well be some that I don't know about.

[JBofBrisbane]

Traffic lights in Queensland used to do this until the late seventies, but since then, the sequence goes from red straight to green with no amber.

[emdB67]

@JBofBrisbane Same in Victoria - it's just that we still have a number of older sites that were never upgraded and are still doing this opening amber sequence today.

[Detroit8V92tta]

@KE1MP No, you're wrong. All traffic signal installations here in Victoria Australia used to have opening ambers, regardless of weather they were Pedestrian or intersection signals.

[Ampelfreund]

in midle Europe too but not netherlands

[mpc1209]

The red and yellow before green is programmed into every traffic light in the uk :P

[mlps93]

we still have them in Hong Kong

[mclarenmercedess]

That's good proper traffic lights like england

[majstealth]

@emdB67 20 years befor east german traffic signals uses also green/yellow->yellow->red to show it will change to red if you will the opposite of red/yellow