Are Your Stoplights Sideways? (vs, design, cities)

[DannyBanany]

Here in South Dakota they're right side up, but I've noticed that several other states have them sideways or both ways. What does your state do?

[case44]

Originally Posted by DannyBanany

Here in South Dakota they're right side up, but I've noticed that several other states have them sideways or both ways. What does your state do?

In other words, vertical (up-down) vs horizontal (across) traffic signal mountings. In SD, yours happen to be vertical, Danny. Texas actually has both, but most cities and towns there tend to use horizontally-mounted signals as their primary design. The notable exception in Texas is Fort Worth. They have preferred an exclusive vertical design in their city. Places such as Wichita Falls, Amarillo, Dallas, and Beaumont were exclusively vertical before switching their signal structure to horizontal in recent years. In San Antonio, they use both styles but are leaning back to more of a vertical design. In the other locations in Texas, it's exclusively horizontal. Houston's done it ever since the beginning.


By the way, here's a cool link for you. www.trafficsignals.net

Go to the link and find 'signal pictures', then click.

[DannyBanany]

Thanks for the link! I was gonna use the words vertical and horizontal but I figured most people wouldn't remember which was which so I "dumbed it down" a little!

[elgusano]

We have one traffic signal, and it's vertical.

[vegaspilgrim]

In New Mexico it seems like all the traffic lights are horizontal. But everywhere else I've been they're vertical.

[krudmonk]

Ours are in 3-D.

[SteelCityRising]

Our lights in Scranton are all vertical. I guess we're vanilla in yet another category.

[Drover]

Sideways stoplights are a PITA for those who are red-green colorblind.