@@AbelG8781michigan has problem with it and it pisses me off. most of the iron and steel was used for cars back in the day. We look like a third world country with our lights. Kentucky is the worst offender though.
They are. They're very big and heavy. Even a "smaller" one is very big and weighs a lot. I think there's a picture online of a person standing next to one. I think the one they're standing next to is one of the "big" ones. Either way, don't get hit by one of those.
It has happened. There are videos of it here on RUclips. iirc someone was actually killed when one of the heavier ones caved in the roof onto the driver. Lights belong on steel poles, not dangling by wires.
@@poorlenore it's mostly a southeast thing, some Midwest too, that's where I've seen them, but here in Colorado it's never done either, everything on arms.
They are on wires most likely because the main traffic lights on metal poles are down for construction or maintenance. These wire setups are usually temporary.
@@DavidSpillman-x6jthey're actually not. They are metal and very heavy and large. They are about 5 ft tall and 30 inches wide. My bar has one. You should Google them it's crazy how big they are.
@@jschackmann2Because it wasn’t properly attached. I live in a place where tornados are relatively common, and our wire lights like this has never fallen. This is a shoddy install.
@@hyacinthlynch843 This looks more like a state highway / route, than a regular street, so if I'm correct, the State of New York's DOT (NYDOT) should be at fault.
@@Soeks77well considering how they look when you're in your car or far away they don't look big at all. There was this vieo someone was holding them and never realized how big they are either.
In Illinois, you only see hanging lights like these in construction zones as temporary lights. I’ve been to states like Georgia that uses hanging lights everywhere.
As a GA driver, ending up in places where traffic lights are horizontal, fixed to poles, and/or off to the side can be visually disorienting in busy intersections, simply because we're not used to it.
i personally have seen some of these dangling lights flying off / turning off due to wind while driving as well. it is honestly up to the city, so atlanta uses masts instead of cheap wires because it just doesn’t have space for wires
Because they’re safer, cheaper, and easier to maintain. Steel masts are susceptible to way more fatigue when blowing in the wind. Having the cables free flowing in the wind extends support. An entire steel structure falling is more dangerous than a single light falling
@@qafk2015 This is blatantly false. While wire masts are far cheaper, they are also far more fragile, far more unreliable and far more susceptible to spontaneous major malfunction from the elements as seen in this video, leaving an intersection suddenly without a traffic light which is not exactly safe. When it comes to maintenence, there is literally not much of a difference. The main thing that needs maintenance with a traffic light are the bulbs themselves which need to be replaced and the process is not gonna change just because the light itself is hanging by a wire, if anything, it makes it harder to replace than doing so on a fixed installation. The only advantage of wire masts is that they're cheap. In every other regard, they are just worse and unsafe, this video is a great demonstration as to why.
I mean Illinois has the highest tax rates in the county. Good infrastructure should be bare minimum with a 5% income tax. Jesus, for that much Y'all should have gold roads.
I was a signal technician the “wire” is called strand it runs from wood pole to wood pole across the road and it can support over 5000 pounds the part that failed here was the bracket attaching the head(traffic light) to the strand it broke off leaving the head hanging by the electrical cable this bracket and others can also break in the same way on a metal pole there is no solving this it will always happen over time this city needs to invest in preventative maintenance
Isn't there supposed to be a wire running from both poles on the top and bottom of the light to hold it up and down? I feel like this can be boiled down to just laziness and not installing it properly because this is the first time I've seen a traffic light not supported by the top and bottom, which would've kept it from swinging around and falling off like this
Its good for truck drivers who have oversized loads and need to use the intersection. Guys like electricians or traffic control officials (including police) can just help direct traffic while guys on bucket trucks can lift traffic signals and wires with poles and/or sticks. Please take a lesson from our fallen traffic signal here; stop being stiff and seeing things in black and white all the time and try to be more flexible. The fact of the matter is all things have a terminal wind velocity.
Houston Tx Over 40 years ago most of the lights in the SW section were on temp wires. Today many of those still are on temp wires. Might depend on how the city allocated the funds.
Traffic lights on poles and arms are prone to metal fatigue, especially in windy conditions. Those metal traffic light poles have fallen on cars before, which is much more threatening than a singular light falling.
I read online that Texas, New Mexico, Nebraska and Florida have the signals horizontal instead of vertical is because of wind among other reasons I always thought all traffic signals were horizontal.
@@SilverXTikalhorizontal traffic lights started showing up in eastern North Carolina sometime in the past few years; not sure exactly when, but I’ve seen them on trips to the beach. That they’re in the eastern part of the state and nowhere else (that I know of) makes me think it could have something to do with hurricanes.
@@michaeljohnson7493 yeah the weather undeniably is different these days. Infrastructure within our country is going to have to evolve with our climate. I’m not a climate change Nut but I do remember it used to be well into snow before and after Christmas. Now I’m wearing a T-shirt in February of all months only for it to be completely cold for only a week. In my opinion? Time to move underground xD
Noticed that the pedestrian signal goes out the instant the signal falls off. So does this mean the controller goes straight to flashing red when it detects a light has disconnected?
Look like the light fell, and then the pedestrian light went out shortly after that. Not sure where you’re getting it “flashing red” from. Am I missing something?
The traffic lights on the other side were green with the left turn arrow, that's why the ones in this video were red. That's why no cars are going the other way.
Had this same thing happen while I was stationed in Norfolk,VA. Hurricane Bertha came through kicking up a fuss,and the traffic light about 1/2 block from the house broke loose and slid up the street until it wound up wedged under a neighbors car.😂
The one light pole in Mayfield KY, it had been severely damaged by this tornado on December 10, 2021. I looked at this pole in downtown Mayfield, and the traffic light pole was partialy broken and bent up. It was an EF4 tornado back then. Google that if yall didnt know about it.
de 2 traffic lights next to him: DONT DO IT MY MAN the traffic light: *cease in my life , bless you traffic jesus.* also the traffic light: *_dies in like one of those cartoon videos_*
This is something that has always been a concern of mine, and here we have a prime example, as to what can happen with one of these Traffic Lights! This business of putting them on lines and such, and having them hang out over Traffic, is, as far as I'm concerned, very irresponsible! Somebody could have gotten hit and killed like that!
I'm watching this video from Ghana 🇬🇭,which i am a road safety advocate too,i was scared to death that it was gonna come off to hit a moving vehicle but it was the opposite #Love4TheLight 🚦🚙🇬🇭
Absolutely. They need to do what we’ve done in the UK and in many other countries, to put their traffic lights on strong metal poles at the side of the road. People will still see them and will still stop at red lights
They all fly away, even some that are on mast arms.. The signal is usually plastic and the wind puts stress on the weakest point which is the plastic. Ive seen some horizontal mounted signals still fail but it is better having the point of mounting on both ends which can add a lot better strength but no signal is invincible when mother natures in town..
In Miami, Florida, actually in most of Florida, traffic lights do not hang from rotting poles or dangling wires. They are properly installed on solid metal poles. Keep in mind that Florida does not have a car tax and does not have an income tax. Yet they can afford what in 99% of the USA are considered luxuries. What's your state, county, and city government doing with your tax money? Why are your street lights dangling from wires? We need to start removing these governments.
Basically everywhere in the country that isn't the south or Appalachia has metal poles. Also Florida definitely does have tax on car sales and yearly registration as well as gas tax and lots of tolls so I'm not sure what you're talking about
Why are US traffic lights always hanging from overhead lines? In the UK, even at our larger intersections, they’re on big thick poles that are sunken deep into the ground and often we have two sets of lights, a set mounted higher up for trucks and buses, and a lower one for smaller vehicles. There’s no need to be hanging them above your intersections, not only does it look incredibly tacky, it’s dangerous… as this video clearly demonstrates.
Most of the time it's pretty strong. It's quite cheap compared to large Poles, and if installed right shouldn't fall. This one was likely not installed correctly, and was obviously about to fall. People shouldn't have driven under it.
The hanging wire thing is a old design and is being phased out, it was just cheaper for small towns to use them instead of paying for the pole version.
Why are people outside of the usa so uneducated, ignorant and biased, refusing to do some research and judge the entire country and its people based on a single video?
@taylorleger2678 Until you get to the multi lane mast mounted lights. Those be doing a jig in light wind (which can take the entire pole down after a while)
My wonderful hometown Rochester, NY 😂😂 This is in the suburb of Gates at the corner of Lyell Ave and Lee Rd..I know that area very well..mind you those signals are relatively new..haven’t even been up 2 years yet lol
Most rural podunk towns have their lights hung like this. It's not good, but the town usually doesn't have the money for sturdy lights and usually get very little funding from the government
I think they should have roundabouts wherever there’s space for them, instead of lights. It can cost up to 1 to 1.5 million to build one, though those taking up less space can cost much less, but compared to the $200,000 up to $500,000 cost to install lights PLUS $8,000 to maintain the lights annually, roundabouts can save a lot of money in the long run. A developing town not far from where I live has installed only roundabouts, with zero traffic lights. There’s probably about 10 so far. If they had 10 traffic light intersections instead it would cost them more in the long run and statistically be less safe. Stop sign only intersections are also statistically less safe than roundabouts. They reduce congestion and are much safer than roads with lights or just stop signs.
This has to be one of the worst traffic light setups i have seen.
I swear and all over the area I live in and always breaks and never be fix but that's life in the Mississippi Delta
You should see the ones in North Carolina.
😂
I was going to say compared to the ones in Charlotte these seem simple.@@silverhawk24
@@silverhawk24oh my god the ones here in NC are terrible. Atleast some
I've never seen traffic light this polite before.
It even make sure the road is empty before finally falling down.
If hanging on by thread was a street light😂
😂😂😂😂
Rigged!
Yep
It dont look like it but, traffic lights that size are 200 - 300 lbs.
The hip hop playing in the car goes perfectly to the traffic light's motion in the wind 😂
I just thought the same thing. 😅
Lmao 🤣
It's goes like oochy ouchy oh like grumpy santa
It’s like movie production quality. The music adds a lot to this.
"Hip Hop"
Never thought I'd see a traffic light go through it's own red light.
Now it has to go to traffic (light) court.
@@rqlk the judge will give it a light sentence
😂😂
Would the light be found guilty of Failing to Obey a Traffic Control Device if it IS the traffic control device?
@@TheBugSlug "I am sorry your honor, at the moment all I could see was red"
That’s why we need traffic lights on a poll instead on wires.
Exactly, they need to stop using this outdated ahh design
@@SoosRamirez1
They only do that in my area when theres construction
Seems like the south and west use poles vs the Midwest that still lives in the 1900s.
@@AbelG8781michigan has problem with it and it pisses me off. most of the iron and steel was used for cars back in the day. We look like a third world country with our lights. Kentucky is the worst offender though.
@@AbelG8781 I live in South Carolina and we have mostly wires, we only have poles in high end areas
Thank God nobody's gotten hurt nor vehicles damaged.
I agree
Thank the lord
🙏
Luckily these new ones are made of plastic and only weigh about 5-10 lbs, so if one does fall it's gonna hurt but it won't kill you or total your car
Right
“Sir, are you aware you just ran a red light?”
“There was a red light?”
Fr there's no way those lights were visible to traffic at the end
in the UK if they dont work as intended you can go as long as you slow down and make sure its safe
@@vadwvea7153Same in Canada
The red light ran away from me officer
Was green a second ago I swear!
"sir did you see that red light back there?"
the red light in question:
Lol
"some" cops will pull you over despite how horribly traffic lights are set up
@@aimranehd fr fr
@@aimranehd it's part of their job i guess
"Sir you ran ze red light."
"What light?"
The hip hop music perfectly captures the rebellious nature of the red light that ran itself 😂😂
Looked like the traffic light was dancing to it
Horror movies be like:
Glad no one was in the intersection. Those lights are bigger/heavier than what we perceive them to be.
Yeah that could get through a windshield fs
Has to be, it legit shattered on impact. Anything light would’ve been fine
It’s almost the size of a person
@Spid4rsw3bz
No you wouldn't. Dead people don't argue.
They are. They're very big and heavy. Even a "smaller" one is very big and weighs a lot. I think there's a picture online of a person standing next to one. I think the one they're standing next to is one of the "big" ones. Either way, don't get hit by one of those.
Imagine casually driving and then you get hit by a traffic light
I remember when traffic lights were made of cast iron and weighed about a hundred pounds! 😬
YES, imagine the surprise and PAIN of being suddenly struck by one of those heavy lights..Wow! -😮
It has happened. There are videos of it here on RUclips. iirc someone was actually killed when one of the heavier ones caved in the roof onto the driver. Lights belong on steel poles, not dangling by wires.
Light: I was trying to get your attention to stop.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS
This type of traffic light setups i have seen 1st time in my life😅😂
I don't think people realize just how big those are.😮
My reaction to street light fixtures. They are MASSIVE on the ground!!
I own trafficlights. They are 2 sizes. 8" and 12" lenses. They are pretty big.😊
@@strashinsky
I own two cobraheads. Lower wattage ones are big enough, I can't imagine what the higher wattage ones look like side by side.
word for word i was about to post the sane comment
Dude i was just thinkin the same
its weird thinking about how big traffic lights really are and how much damage they could possibly do
Yeah they usually weigh less nowadays, but the old school ones weigh a metric fu k ton
Was thinking that too.
Thank god it didn’t land in one of those cars, a very polite traffic light 😅
pay check from the city would’ve bought you a house and a lambo
For real. Back in college, some guy had one in his frat house. That thing was gigantic and heavy af. Took 4 people to move it
Bro be vibin before his death 💀 💀💀💀
I believe all signals should be on mast arms instead of span wire.
That's what I'm saying. Someone could have gotten hurt.
I have seen mast arm movement 90 degrees from may 2019 severe storms and the winds was over 70mph!
in az they are ive never seen this
@@poorlenore it's mostly a southeast thing, some Midwest too, that's where I've seen them, but here in Colorado it's never done either, everything on arms.
They are on wires most likely because the main traffic lights on metal poles are down for construction or maintenance. These wire setups are usually temporary.
Shit broke like a Lego set 💀
Facts 😂
They are plastic!
Plastic
😂😂😂
@@DavidSpillman-x6jthey're actually not. They are metal and very heavy and large.
They are about 5 ft tall and 30 inches wide. My bar has one. You should Google them it's crazy how big they are.
Thank goodness no cars were in its way. We're blessed in ways we find even notice sometimes
R.I.P traffic light it's now in traffic light heaven
yup
There's a Heaven for Everything!
Yep
@shepherd85 Some of our traffic lights are on metal poles, and some are on wires. It's like that in my home state, Ohio, and here in Florida.
It got the greenlight on heaven
So lucky no car got hit by it or the city would be paying out for not securing it properly
Those things are like 100-200lbs(some.bigger), could be a sore neck if u got a sunroof or a thin roof.
@@0xsergy still
@@0xsergydeath sentence if its a convertible.
Why would the city be fined? It high winds
@@jschackmann2Because it wasn’t properly attached. I live in a place where tornados are relatively common, and our wire lights like this has never fallen. This is a shoddy install.
Traffic light: (Dancing)
(Later)
Traffic light: (Dies)
Who’s the smartie pants that said “Hey let’s hang traffic lights on the lose strings we pluck out of our shirts”
They are on a base that doesn't allow it to twist. Obviously not tornado rated but it is cheaper than engineering a post for small towns
It's on a metal pole that's attached to the wire, except in this case it detached from the pole and was dangling by its wires
Its a very old design and by old i mean 1930s old so they never made the poles its kinda like cars 1 where the light hangs not on a pole
Lack of municipal funding for a proper design is usually the culprit for something like this.
@@hyacinthlynch843 This looks more like a state highway / route, than a regular street, so if I'm correct, the State of New York's DOT (NYDOT) should be at fault.
Great design. Whoever designed that actually went through and put it up should get an award. Great job.
Designed with entertainment in mind 🚦💥
No this is actually supposed to be a temporary placeholder for a regular traffic light pole, but I guess they just don’t replace it.
Police: 911 what’s your emergency
Me: traffic lights dancing 💀
A 5 foot tall traffic light slamming down is insane
5 foot😳
@@Nocing yes? How tall do you think they are lmao
@@Soeks77well considering how they look when you're in your car or far away they don't look big at all. There was this vieo someone was holding them and never realized how big they are either.
@@Soeks775 foot my ass
@@Soeks77 a regular 3 section light is 30-42" tall depending on whether they use 8" or 12" lights.
In Illinois, you only see hanging lights like these in construction zones as temporary lights. I’ve been to states like Georgia that uses hanging lights everywhere.
As a GA driver, ending up in places where traffic lights are horizontal, fixed to poles, and/or off to the side can be visually disorienting in busy intersections, simply because we're not used to it.
i personally have seen some of these dangling lights flying off / turning off due to wind while driving as well. it is honestly up to the city, so atlanta uses masts instead of cheap wires because it just doesn’t have space for wires
Because they’re safer, cheaper, and easier to maintain. Steel masts are susceptible to way more fatigue when blowing in the wind. Having the cables free flowing in the wind extends support. An entire steel structure falling is more dangerous than a single light falling
@@qafk2015 This is blatantly false. While wire masts are far cheaper, they are also far more fragile, far more unreliable and far more susceptible to spontaneous major malfunction from the elements as seen in this video, leaving an intersection suddenly without a traffic light which is not exactly safe.
When it comes to maintenence, there is literally not much of a difference. The main thing that needs maintenance with a traffic light are the bulbs themselves which need to be replaced and the process is not gonna change just because the light itself is hanging by a wire, if anything, it makes it harder to replace than doing so on a fixed installation.
The only advantage of wire masts is that they're cheap. In every other regard, they are just worse and unsafe, this video is a great demonstration as to why.
I mean Illinois has the highest tax rates in the county. Good infrastructure should be bare minimum with a 5% income tax. Jesus, for that much Y'all should have gold roads.
Power company: what do you think of our new hip hop traffic light
That turn signal providing one Hell of a background beat for the song
I was a signal technician the “wire” is called strand it runs from wood pole to wood pole across the road and it can support over 5000 pounds the part that failed here was the bracket attaching the head(traffic light) to the strand it broke off leaving the head hanging by the electrical cable this bracket and others can also break in the same way on a metal pole there is no solving this it will always happen over time this city needs to invest in preventative maintenance
Phew! Found some brain cells.
......😮 I Totally Agree!!!! "Preventative Maintenance" !!!!!!!!!
.... In EVERY City !!!!!
No. They need to invest in more permanent infrastructure, like poles and signal arms for the lights and signs.
Isn't there supposed to be a wire running from both poles on the top and bottom of the light to hold it up and down? I feel like this can be boiled down to just laziness and not installing it properly because this is the first time I've seen a traffic light not supported by the top and bottom, which would've kept it from swinging around and falling off like this
I see it’s only the light in the middle that has failed to this extent.
And thats why i love that in poland there are NO traffic lights on wires.
Why the heck the US has traffic lights hanging by cables?? 😂😂😂
there not common in the US
@@Joe_Monkey_RoganDepends on where you live, very common around me
They’re actually not supposed to be used as a permanent traffic pole.
It’s a weird place partially like a 3rd world country then a 1st world country in other places
@@Putri-nl2gg so odd man
I never understood why the city thought it would be a good idea to put stop lights on wires instead of poles. Stop being cheap and do it right. 🤔
These wire setups are usually temporary while the main light that are on poles are down for maintenance or construction reasons.
Cost
Its good for truck drivers who have oversized loads and need to use the intersection. Guys like electricians or traffic control officials (including police) can just help direct traffic while guys on bucket trucks can lift traffic signals and wires with poles and/or sticks. Please take a lesson from our fallen traffic signal here; stop being stiff and seeing things in black and white all the time and try to be more flexible. The fact of the matter is all things have a terminal wind velocity.
Houston Tx Over 40 years ago most of the lights in the SW section were on temp wires. Today many of those still are on temp wires. Might depend on how the city allocated the funds.
Traffic lights on poles and arms are prone to metal fatigue, especially in windy conditions. Those metal traffic light poles have fallen on cars before, which is much more threatening than a singular light falling.
The fact that it is still working before even falling off is insane
I read online that Texas, New Mexico, Nebraska and Florida have the signals horizontal instead of vertical is because of wind among other reasons I always thought all traffic signals were horizontal.
Nebraska has them vertically, but we use cross poles instead of wire to mount ours
Growing up along the east coast I’ve just thought it was a Florida thing because of the hurricanes.
Quebec is like that that's in 🇨🇦 incase yall were wondering
@@SilverXTikalhorizontal traffic lights started showing up in eastern North Carolina sometime in the past few years; not sure exactly when, but I’ve seen them on trips to the beach. That they’re in the eastern part of the state and nowhere else (that I know of) makes me think it could have something to do with hurricanes.
@@michaeljohnson7493 yeah the weather undeniably is different these days. Infrastructure within our country is going to have to evolve with our climate. I’m not a climate change Nut but I do remember it used to be well into snow before and after Christmas. Now I’m wearing a T-shirt in February of all months only for it to be completely cold for only a week.
In my opinion?
Time to move underground xD
At least he was vibing for those last 14.5 seconds.
I managed to ignore it until you said something.
“There was music??? Well I’ll be damned….”
That one wiggly tooth that comes out at the most random time and place:
That light was tellin everyone to stop 🤣😅
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂
In the Philippines our traffic lights have timers and also are installed on a pole.
Same we have poles in Australia
@@kingseb2252 ik
@@kingseb2252with the cameras 😂
How about an overpass?
@@ImEpic854 that can do.
Bro wanted a break after doing all that traffic light business😂
Left and Right Traffic Light: Swinging*
Center Traffic Light: Im going to do my own thing. Screw you guys.
Center Traffic Light: “Welp, it was nice *hanging* with you guys!”
Those things are so much bigger than people realize.
No kidding. It could have killed someone.
The light really just said byeeeeeee
That song in the background tho. damn 🔥
Noticed that the pedestrian signal goes out the instant the signal falls off. So does this mean the controller goes straight to flashing red when it detects a light has disconnected?
More than likely the hot wire touched the neutral wires when the signal fell and a short-circuit malfunction triggered red flash mode
the controller sensed either no current/light out or a short and went into flash
Probably a short circuit reset the system
Look like the light fell, and then the pedestrian light went out shortly after that. Not sure where you’re getting it “flashing red” from.
Am I missing something?
Yes, the lights went to flashing red right before the traffic light flew off the wires
That light be like "Everyone stop, yo why aren't yall stopping, STOP" *dies*
Who else thought it was gonna hit a car
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Not me, because the title doesn’t say “And hits car”.
@@achannelwithaprofilepictur6253exactly!
Hot take: Comments like yours (not the replies) are implicitly begging for likes.
@@MCAlexisYT you're right. This comment was 7 months ago and i didn't know much better at the time of commenting that
The whole time I was thinking who's it gonna hit the suspense is killing me. Hits the road···crickets 😒
Nobody :
The traffic light : *SELF DESTRUCT ACTIVATED.*
so beyond corny
People still comment like this. My God… take a walk
@@Lunar_Capital fr so fucking cringe
@@killcxm _[car honking like a train]_
@@MCAlexisYT .
"I'm freeeee-" **SPLAT**
The traffic light was upset because everyone was ignoring that fact that it was red and kept going through it!!
The traffic lights on the other side were green with the left turn arrow, that's why the ones in this video were red. That's why no cars are going the other way.
It might have been upset because it wasn't fastened tight enough to the wire holding it up.
The traffic light: my sanity during college
The only crime committed here is listening to that Cardi B and Ye Song 😭 I forgot about that track
As a Louisianaian, we go through this every strong tropical storm
Had this same thing happen while I was stationed in Norfolk,VA.
Hurricane Bertha came through kicking up a fuss,and the traffic light about 1/2 block from the house broke loose and slid up the street until it wound up wedged under a neighbors car.😂
I used to live there and went to Old Dominion!
Bro try to be a pole dancer and then tried to be a American Ninja Warrior but it failed so bad😂😂
The one light pole in Mayfield KY, it had been severely damaged by this tornado on December 10, 2021. I looked at this pole in downtown Mayfield, and the traffic light pole was partialy broken and bent up. It was an EF4 tornado back then. Google that if yall didnt know about it.
de 2 traffic lights next to him: DONT DO IT MY MAN
the traffic light: *cease in my life , bless you traffic jesus.*
also the traffic light: *_dies in like one of those cartoon videos_*
Wtf 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Underrated comment 😂
🤣🤣🤣
They need to replace those traffic lights
Cop “didn’t you see the light “, guy in black car “ yes sir, it almost came thru my windshield “!
As a former traffic light, we are indeed larger than you think we are.
Did your intersection get replaced with a roundabout?
As a truck driver myself, I also be praying as I go under traffic lights and across bridges 😅 fr God is good it missed the people driving
Remember to treat downed lights as if it is a four way intersr tion
I think you mean 4-way stop.
This is something that has always been a concern of mine, and here we have a prime example, as to what can happen with one of these Traffic Lights!
This business of putting them on lines and such, and having them hang out over Traffic, is, as far as I'm concerned, very irresponsible! Somebody could have gotten hit and killed like that!
I'm watching this video from Ghana 🇬🇭,which i am a road safety advocate too,i was scared to death that it was gonna come off to hit a moving vehicle but it was the opposite #Love4TheLight 🚦🚙🇬🇭
Absolutely. They need to do what we’ve done in the UK and in many other countries, to put their traffic lights on strong metal poles at the side of the road. People will still see them and will still stop at red lights
In America. Traffic light hits red.
In soviet russia: traffic light hit you
this is so obviously usa, not russia💀
The traffic light was just dancing to the backround music but ended up twisting up his electric vessels and packed his bags up to heaven
Omg !
I thought there was somebody inside the light as it hit the ground..
Whew .
TF??
Traffic light be like: yo I’m out
😂😂😂
May god give that traffic light peace R.I.P
the only reason why put traffic lights on wires is to save money…
No wonder why places like Florida near beaches have sideways mounted traffic lites it keeps them from flying off
They all fly away, even some that are on mast arms.. The signal is usually plastic and the wind puts stress on the weakest point which is the plastic. Ive seen some horizontal mounted signals still fail but it is better having the point of mounting on both ends which can add a lot better strength but no signal is invincible when mother natures in town..
Traffic light was like I'm out of here 🤷🏼♂️
The cord attached to it was like "Fine! If you want to leave so bad, GO!"
In Miami, Florida, actually in most of Florida, traffic lights do not hang from rotting poles or dangling wires. They are properly installed on solid metal poles. Keep in mind that Florida does not have a car tax and does not have an income tax. Yet they can afford what in 99% of the USA are considered luxuries. What's your state, county, and city government doing with your tax money? Why are your street lights dangling from wires? We need to start removing these governments.
Basically everywhere in the country that isn't the south or Appalachia has metal poles. Also Florida definitely does have tax on car sales and yearly registration as well as gas tax and lots of tolls so I'm not sure what you're talking about
Why are US traffic lights always hanging from overhead lines? In the UK, even at our larger intersections, they’re on big thick poles that are sunken deep into the ground and often we have two sets of lights, a set mounted higher up for trucks and buses, and a lower one for smaller vehicles.
There’s no need to be hanging them above your intersections, not only does it look incredibly tacky, it’s dangerous… as this video clearly demonstrates.
In Washington DC they do that but with only 1 traffic light for both types of vehicles, so you have to spend a second or 2 looking for a traffic light
Most of the time it's pretty strong. It's quite cheap compared to large Poles, and if installed right shouldn't fall. This one was likely not installed correctly, and was obviously about to fall. People shouldn't have driven under it.
Wires were common in the East, and being phased out. In Florida we almost never add lights on wires anymore, almost always sideways on a masts.
The hanging wire thing is a old design and is being phased out, it was just cheaper for small towns to use them instead of paying for the pole version.
Why are people outside of the usa so uneducated, ignorant and biased, refusing to do some research and judge the entire country and its people based on a single video?
That's how you saw that the traffic lights don't work if this fall down during this weather
this is scary knowing how big those lights are in reality
Why the hell would you hang trafic lights like this 🫢
Because I thank it's cheaper then putting them on a pole
@@tobyzilla2.074exactly. that could've hit someone's car and theyd try to sue teh city for it
@@edwardcole4623If they SURVIVED not getting killed
Why not come up with suggestions instead of questions and complaints?!!
@rameshshah478 not a complaint as thank god I don't live in the good old US 🤣🤣😂
In Texas they string these type of signals horizontally because they're less of a dangling sail.
They should put traffic lights on poles instead of wires
WoW what Kind of Hanging Traffic Lights are Those...Never Seen one in my entire Life Except for now.
Never knew they had traffic lights on wires and not poles
@taylorleger2678 Until you get to the multi lane mast mounted lights. Those be doing a jig in light wind (which can take the entire pole down after a while)
Me neither, I’ve never seen them hung on wires in real life except on internet videos
Also it’s common in Michigan too
Bro it is so polite that it waited until the road was empty so it could drop so wholesome
Those things will easily kill somebody.
At the beginning, the traffic light is directing traffic from the other direction and gets punished by the wind for doing it💀😂
This video was very informative.
These traffic lights are supposed to have a span wire hanging under it for it doesn’t really move around that much
My wonderful hometown Rochester, NY 😂😂 This is in the suburb of Gates at the corner of Lyell Ave and Lee Rd..I know that area very well..mind you those signals are relatively new..haven’t even been up 2 years yet lol
traffic light being drunk: ahh setup
The light🚦 be dancing in the gale
Traffic light 🚦 is broken 😠 😊
At least it didn’t hit any cars, but still it shouldn’t be set up like that
what happen if you can fix it?
they have to clean the debris up, and then replace the traffic light
If they fix it then it will work
Most rural podunk towns have their lights hung like this. It's not good, but the town usually doesn't have the money for sturdy lights and usually get very little funding from the government
Lovely New York State lol..mostly all cities in New York State (outside New York City) have the signals on wires like this
Thats speachless...
Traffic Light: We’re having a dance party!
Cars: No your not your blowing like crazy
Where is this at I mean we have all the street signs tied on rope..........I mean how bad is it where ever that's at...🤔
Rochester NY
Not even 2 miles away from me
Alot of small suburbs in Illinois have these… i hate them!!!
As stupid as it sounds, that is the most hilarious explosion of something I’ve ever seen, it looks like a Lego video game explosion
Traffic light setup looks like it was designed by a 5 year old with some christmas lights
It should be crime to install traffic light on a cable like that instead of on the pole.
And to think that we've had Traffic Lights for over a century. (over 100 years) 👍🏼😎
For all of those hardworking people in a hurry who may have been held up by this light...enjoy.
Canadians have them extended on reinforced polls😂
Yessir
Most cities in the US do too. Small towns still have them on strings like this but that's not super common from where I've been
Yeah im from Nj we don’t have the strings anywhere
I think they should have roundabouts wherever there’s space for them, instead of lights. It can cost up to 1 to 1.5 million to build one, though those taking up less space can cost much less, but compared to the $200,000 up to $500,000 cost to install lights PLUS $8,000 to maintain the lights annually, roundabouts can save a lot of money in the long run. A developing town not far from where I live has installed only roundabouts, with zero traffic lights. There’s probably about 10 so far. If they had 10 traffic light intersections instead it would cost them more in the long run and statistically be less safe. Stop sign only intersections are also statistically less safe than roundabouts.
They reduce congestion and are much safer than roads with lights or just stop signs.
I actually seen shiii happen like this