Countdown Crosswalk Signal

Demonstration of a crosswalk signal. At the time this video was taken, the indicator changes to "walk" for about 7 seconds when the light turns green. After that, the "don't walk" hand flashes and the timer begins to count down. Depending which side of the street you're on determines the amount of time that appears on the countdown. Because this is a side street, the countdown starts at "12". After the countdown, if there is no "call" from the side streets (by cars or people wanting to cross the main road), the signal goes back to "walk" and the light stays green on the main road. If after a count down that a call is placed, the signal changes to "don't walk" and the light on the main road changes to red. Although not seen, the light does not turn to yellow until after the countdown timer is complete (some locations have the light change to yellow during the countdown).

P.S., sorry for the shakiness. Also, there's no sound due to the fact that I had kids from neighboring houses yelling at me...

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Crosswalk
• Traffic
• Signal
• Countdown
• Hand
• Don't
• Walk
• Person
• Timer

[WheelockAlarms]

These are a common sight in Washington, D.C.

[weatherdan882002]

@WheelockAlarms Style doesn't really matter to me, so long as it's got a countdown and dotted LEDs, I'm not very fond of the Dialight ones.

[wileyk209zback]

My city's finally getting these installed at one of the intersections that is being redone! They use the single rectangular 16-inch housing though, and I can't tell what company made them though, but they look like the incandescent-look models (they might be GE or Dialight, as Brockton usually uses those.) The important thing is that Brockton finally has them at at least one of their intersections,

[wileyk209zback]

They don't have ANY of these in Brockton, MA yet. There's a few intersections near my old high school and the V.A. hospital that still have the old incandescent worded walk signals and are very busy and dangerous. I could see those getting replaced with countdown signals like that one (they'd probably just do a retrofit job, replacing the "DONT WALK" light with the hand/man combo, and the "WALK" light with the timer.)

[YankeePat94]

In my town, they've replaced all of the incandescent ped signals with countdowns.

[Hourglass4321]

They have similar ones around here, in places where they're not necessary, but not in places where they should be.