On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:51:23 -0000, "William Gothberg" "William
wrote:

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:15:03 -0000, Dave W wrote:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:12:48 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie"
wrote:

On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:42:21 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Steve Walker" wrote in message
news On 16/12/2018 19:49, Rod Speed wrote:


"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message
news On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:37:49 -0000, newshound
wrote:

On 14/12/2018 18:22, Fred Johnson wrote:
People with colour blindness shouldn't drive trains (or cars for that
matter).

And it's not very many, in fact I know of only one person who's
colourblind.

You may not know *of* many but I bet you know quite a lot. It's about
8%
of men, although many of them do not realise that, or discover it until
tested later in life.

I think you'd notice when you saw all the traffic light bulbs looking
identical. You're not safe to drive if you can't tell red from green.

Very few are that colorblind and those who are
just use the position of the light, not the color.
Dunno how they go with those colored arrows
that are now so common to indicate when you
can turn at the more complex intersections tho.

Cant find a proper photo of ours and too lazy to
go there and take a photo, but we have some
where there is a normal column of 3 lights and
one arrow off to the side which changes color
to indicate when you are free to turn there.

Ours doesn't change colour. We have the normal three lights and maybe an
arrow at one side (sometimes both sides). If the main green is lit, but
not the turn arrow, you can turn anyway, but must give-way to oncoming
traffic. If the arrow is lit, oncoming traffic will be facing a red. There
is no need for any other colour arrows.

Where the turn lane is separated from the straight on lanes, two full sets
of three lights side by side are used.

One of our complicated intersections has the arrow either green or red.
Its red when the cross traffic has been allowed to make the turn into
that vertical of the T and so a turn from the other top bar of the T
isnt allowed because that would mean you have to give way at times.
In other words the lights don't require you to ever give way, the
arrow only shows green when there is never any conflicting traffic.

That would work well here, as a lot of drivers don't seem to understand that you have to give way on a green. For example there's a crossroads here I've shown befo
https://goo.gl/maps/8XGD49FnQPr
Drivers on the opposite side turning right have to give way to a car coming from this side going straight ahead, but they see the green light and just go. I drove straight towards one of those loonies the other week and blasted my horn. He swerved out of my way and ended up looking very embarrassed on the wrong side of the main road (about where the small silver car is in the photo, but facing the other way) right in front of the queue of traffic which shortly wanted to go forwards. He got stranded in the middle of the junction for some time while I stopped and laughed at his predicament.

Another complex intersection has a railway shunting line right
across it right at the lights. That one has an arrow that changes
color too and it stops or allows traffic to cut across the oncoming
traffic when turning. Its also a single arrow that changes color.

There's something wrong when we let trains have priority over cars. They need to get decent brakes.

I can't understand your Streetview link. The view is coming out of the
Aldi car park, and there is a turn left lane with a turn left arrow,
and a straight ahead lane. Are you truly saying that when when the
straight ahead light goes green and you drive out, the main road
lights are also green?

No, the lights opposite each other operate together. So when I come out of Aldi, the opposite entrance (from Asda) is also green. The main road has stopped on red, but someone coming out of Asda and turning right has to give way to me going from Aldi to Asda. A lot of drivers think green means they can go anywhere, when in fact they still have to give way when turning right. The same occurs with the main road, but nobody seems to make that mistake as they're sat in a filter lane.

Ah, now I understand. I thought you meant you drove at a car turning
right from the main road, not a car turning right from the road
opposite.
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Dave W

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:35:33 +0000, Dave W, another mentally deficient
troll-feeding senile idiot blathered:

Ah, now I understand.

No, you don't! You are troll bait, senile asshole!