Animated Michigan Traffic Signals

A short video of animated Michigan traffic lights. A variety of different traffic signal setups exist in Michigan. In many cases, traffic lights hang on a wire spanning above the intersection, and are often attached into clusters of two, three, or four. In addition, MDOT is starting to put traffic signals up the way most other states and Canadian provinces do it, by hanging them separately on wires or poles after the intersection. Most of these setups contain illuminated one-, two-, three-, or four-sided box signs, often indicating which lanes are left- and right- turn lanes, reading One Way (with a directional arrow), No Turns, or Left Turn Lane, or showing Left Turn Only, No Left Turn, or No Right Turn symbols. Youll occasionally run into blankout signs as well, most of which say No Turn on Red.

Left turn signals in Michigan differ from those in virtually all other 49 states and Canada. Three-lighted signals consist of a green arrow, a yellow arrow, and a full red, and almost always have an illuminated Left box sign attached to the top of them. (Youll sometimes find them with full yellow lights, but only on the older models.) The red light may either flash or stay solid. On flashing red, you have to stop, but you can turn when it is safe to do so. On solid red, you cannot turn at all. Additionally, MDOT is beginning to install four-lighted left turn signals with a green arrow, a flashing yellow arrow, a solid yellow arrow, and a red arrow. These can either turn from flashing yellow to green to solid yellow to red, or from flashing yellow to solid yellow to red.

The vehicle sound clips are not mine. They were obtained from http://www.grsites.com. According to this site, these clips are freely distributable and can be used on websites and for multimedia purposes. No copyright infringement intended.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Animated
• Michigan
• Traffic
• Signals
• Lights
• Stoplights
• Left
• Turn
• Cars
• Automobiles
• Vehicles
• Roads
• Avenues
• Streets

[sorphin]

What did you use to make the animation(s)?

[TrueWolverine87]

@sorphin Just Microsoft Office and Microsoft Paint.

[AmazingJames1987]

this is pretty cool, I recently made my own designs myself and put them together in animation shop, sometime I'll have to record one into here

[sorphin]

@TrueWolverine87 quite impressive then.. I'd like to be able to do that w/ my lights.. heh

[StephonDWatson]

i like this video. The cluster will be remember if that's the case.