Excessive Light II
More street light photos from Port Townsend, Washington, the same lights as before.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100/2.8 macro lens, ISO100.
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🙂 Without offending the good residents of this town……. are they a little crazy ?!
David.
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Some lighting engineer might be, but the people that have to navigate this intersection would need to be anything but to avoid a huge pile up at rush hour (not that they have a rush hour, but…).
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Life could get interesting when they all start swaying in a high wind! Well spotted and I like the letterbox style.
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Thanks Andy – high wind is common in the winter around here, so local drivers must be quite experienced with that problem!
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For some reason, your photos of the these traffic lights amuse me. I like how you’ve cropped the shots, especially the last two. Also, it looks like the poor guy waiting to turn left is NEVER going to get a green arrow!
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I think it is often the way of left turn lanes that one waits forever for the light to change. The cropping seemed the way to go for this subject.
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When we lived in New Orleans, we had to learn a turn maneuver that we named the “New Orleans left.” Left turns weren’t permitted at most intersections, to make a left, we had to make a right and then a U-turn. Or, go past the intersection, make a U-turn and THEN a right. It was very confusing.
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Not very green, if I may say so – all that extra driving all over the city. Probably less safe as well.
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My dad says that left turns are inefficient, from a traffic engineering standpoint. But the N.O. Left hardly seems more efficient!
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The photos look like the array of lights may be confusing but I’ll bet it is obvious to drivers. I think the light manufacturers have successfully marketed the safety of multiple lights and now we see them everywhere except in some locations where they are actually needed.
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Hi Ken. I think they are clear to the driver, or at least to a driver that has been through a couple of times. As you say, other locations might well benefit from a couple of the ‘extras’ from this intersection.
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