On 06/02/2013 10:53, charles wrote:
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polygonum wrote:
On 06/02/2013 10:04, Mike Barnes wrote:

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Each has its place. There are several traffic lights around here where,
if you stop at the proper place, you cannot see the main lights without
craning neck, etc. The small repeaters would help there. Of course,
from a distance the large ones are good.

In these days of relatively inexpensive LEDs, I would have thought
small repeaters could have been incorporated into the posts of many
traffic lights at relatively small marginal cost.

Trouble is, they've gone and put those entirely stupid low-level
pedestrian lights on the posts. ISTM that confusion would be a risk.

Ah - the ones that make sure a pedestrian has to look away from traffic
in order to see they are allowed to cross? Wonderful, aren't they... :-(

DDA- they're for wheelchair users

But as they are the only ones, they are in fact for everyone. Not even a
repeated one on the far side.

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Rod