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Probably the most strangest intersection layout i've seen.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3828196 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3830627 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3833422 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3832669 ... 8192?hl=en

NathanFromEngland wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:32 am Probably the most strangest intersection layout i've seen.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3828196 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3830627 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3833422 ... 8192?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3832669 ... 8192?hl=en

Eh, just an off-set intersection. Seen that several times before.

NathanFromEngland wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:11 am

ZachL wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:44 pm

NathanFromEngland wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:36 amAlso for unknown reasons before these signals were upgraded, the LED traffic lights were downgraded to incandescent PEEK heads.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8089699 ... 384!8i8192

LEDs were awful quality though.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8089496 ... 312!8i6656

Maybe they figured the incandescents were more visible than the LEDs

Not the first time i've seen signal heads downgraded.

On this street, i might've posted this before, these signals were LED heads, but in 2009 they were replaced by incandescent Microsense heads.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3822935 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3822939 ... 312!8i6656

Maybe the LEDs were some sort of test?

What the heck is this mirror looking thing.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3482691 ... 312!8i6656

...What was the point of this? Seem's like a complete waste of time.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4499807 ... 312!8i6656
As of 2019, following an upgrade to the road in 2017, you can legally turn right here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4499966 ... 312!8i6656

NathanFromEngland wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2019 5:02 pm ...What was the point of this? Seem's like a complete waste of time.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4499807 ... 312!8i6656

When in doubt, it's probably visibility.

...Where are the push buttons?
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4855587 ... 6656?hl=en
Traffic lights for a former bus station, car park in 2008, and now a public space.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4855327 ... 6656?hl=en

Here is a picture of the bus station in 1978, the bus station closed in 1986 following bus deregulation in England, and the site was turned into a car park, but the signals were kept even when the site was a car park but blocked off, the signals were removed in 2011 for regeneration work and reinstalled in 2012.

NathanFromEngland wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:33 am ...Where are the push buttons?
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4855587 ... 6656?hl=en

Not every pedestrian crossing is activated manually, y'know?

NO TURNS, but you can turn right... I don't think this is how Michigan works?
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8852383 ... 312!8i6656

NathanFromEngland wrote: Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:17 am NO TURNS, but you can turn right... I don't think this is how Michigan works?
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8852383 ... 312!8i6656

You can turn right on the first part of the intersection, but you can't turn at all in the second part.