@@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.
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
It has happened. There are videos of it here on TH-cam. 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.
@@user-zq5gy2ri6othey'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.
@@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.
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.
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.
A year ago my mom was driving through an intersection and one of these actually fell on the hood of her car. It completely destroyed it and the city had to pay for the repairs. Thankfully nothing happened to her.
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
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.😂
If one of those pickup trucks had a pile of blankets in the bed and passed through a few seconds later they could have had a free traffic light for their basement.
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.
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
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?
There's a reason most states put traffic lights on poles instead of wires. New York is one of the only places in the US you see almost every traffic light on wires. And they just look bad.
@@-YellowFruit- where in Michigan?? Either I'm not paying attention to how traffic lights are suspended or you don't live in Michigan. Also our roads/ALL MAJOR INTERSTATES/FREEWAYS have been completely redone/still going since Whitmer became governor. It was one of the main parts of her campaign, and she actually did it unlike 99% of politicians ever in history.
@@sjohnson65456 I live in a small town in South west Michigan. Just about every light I see has got cables except for lights in places like Grand rapids. While many of our roads have definitely been made better, many roads also haven't. Most roads I drive on the only work they have done on them has been just pouring asphalt into the cracks into the road which makes driving on said roads not exactly comfortable, sometimes even a little dangerous. Could just be this one specific area I'm from that has this issue or it could be a far bigger issue that effects more of the state than I think. Not saying that just because this is what I've seen in Michigan means that every place in Michigan is exactly what I say it is but that's just what I've seen and experienced.
I live in a Canadian border city, and everywhere I’ve ever gone in Canada has had traffic lights affixed to poles. But whenever I cross into America I see these traffic lights dangling on strings and wonder how this isn’t a more common occurrence.
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..
That’s why you don’t hang your traffic lights on a live wire, put a pole up so it has protection and as an added bonus no pedestrians get their shit rocked by flying traffic lights 🤣
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?
Pretty common across the state of Georgia and other states as well, never liked how they look, and as you can see..they aren't very wind resistant compared to mast arm mounted lights
@@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)
@@movingtargetproductions5046 I know...I work on them for a living...hence my prof pic , I've seen them mounted across several lanes on a mast arm, but they have a pole on the other side to attach to so wind won't move them, now I've also seen them mounted on top of a pole, as high as 10+feet from the ground, and the plastic heads tend to snap off under extreme wind
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
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.
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
“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!
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"
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.
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 🤣
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.
"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?"
That song in the background tho. damn 🔥
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:
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 TH-cam. 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
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
The traffic light: my sanity during college
Bro be vibin before his death 💀 💀💀💀
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
Well if it broke that easily and the metal is bending easily then I'd argue otherwise
@@Spid4rsw3bz
No you wouldn't. Dead people don't argue.
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.
Thank goodness no cars were in its way. We're blessed in ways we find even notice sometimes
this is scary knowing how big those lights are in reality
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
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.
This type of traffic light setups i have seen 1st time in my life😅😂
One traffic light flying, causes the entire traffic light system to break down.
Shit broke like a Lego set 💀
Facts 😂
They are plastic!
Plastic
😂😂😂
@@user-zq5gy2ri6othey'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.
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.
In America. Traffic light hits red.
In soviet russia: traffic light hit you
this is so obviously usa, not russia💀
The traffic light: *falls and crashed*
The cars: *ignores it and goes anyway*
Why the heck the US has traffic lights hanging by cables?? 😂😂😂
there not common in the US
@@JoeRogan898Depends 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
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.
The light really just said byeeeeeee
Traffic light: (Dancing)
(Later)
Traffic light: (Dies)
That turn signal providing one Hell of a background beat for the song
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.
New fear unlocked: don’t let a traffic light fall on your car when it’s really windy
I can’t help but Lmao when that Sign Fell😂
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.
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.
A year ago my mom was driving through an intersection and one of these actually fell on the hood of her car.
It completely destroyed it and the city had to pay for the repairs. Thankfully nothing happened to her.
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 wind really couldn’t hold it in
Bro it is so polite that it waited until the road was empty so it could drop so wholesome
Those things are so much bigger than people realize.
No kidding. It could have killed someone.
That light was tellin everyone to stop 🤣😅
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂
Those lights are so old school.
It's amazing how large these lights are until you get up close to one. Most are as tall as an average person.
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.
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!”
He said you got the red, you got the red, no you got the red, no you... Screw it, Imma commit not a light.
Mama always said, "Watch the cars, the lights never hit no one." Maybe the lights need watching too.
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 😒
As a Louisianaian, we go through this every strong tropical storm
That one wiggly tooth that comes out at the most random time and place:
kudos to whomever was paying attention enough to record this, I wish I was that aware 😅
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.
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!
Traffic lights on wires like this are across the entire state of New York
If one of those pickup trucks had a pile of blankets in the bed and passed through a few seconds later they could have had a free traffic light for their basement.
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 .
Remember to treat downed lights as if it is a four way intersr tion
I think you mean 4-way stop.
Perfect reason why you should build pole traffic light versions instead of those hanging lights that you see in the video
Man i should have been under there to get that government check
Those things will easily kill somebody.
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.
"You can't go! The light's re- oh. The light's gone. Idk what that means. It wasn't on the driving exam!"
And just like that, after all these years, it gave up. Ladies and Gentlemen, don't be like this light and continue being strong 💪🏼
de 2 traffic lights next to him: DONT DO IT MY MAN
the traffic light: *cease in my life , bless you traffic jesus.*
Wtf 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Underrated comment 😂
🤣🤣🤣
As a former traffic light, we are indeed larger than you think we are.
Did your intersection get replaced with a roundabout?
Thats why down in Florida their way of holding up stop lights are thick metal poles.
In Slovakia we don't have company, that makes the wires hanging traffic lights, everything is on poles
May god give that traffic light peace R.I.P
Cop “didn’t you see the light “, guy in black car “ yes sir, it almost came thru my windshield “!
Well, that puts a whole new spin on the game "red light, green light"....literally.
Who the shit thought putting traffic lights on flimsy wires was a plausible idea
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 🤣🤣😂
It should be crime to install traffic light on a cable like that instead of on the pole.
The traffic light said, “aight buds, ima explore the world,” and died when impacted the ground.
That light be like "Everyone stop, yo why aren't yall stopping, STOP" *dies*
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
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
And thats why i love that in poland there are NO traffic lights on wires.
It's good, that thing didn't fall on one of the cars! Those things are surprisingly heavy
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
Traffic light be like: yo I’m out
😂😂😂
There's a reason most states put traffic lights on poles instead of wires.
New York is one of the only places in the US you see almost every traffic light on wires.
And they just look bad.
I live in Michigan and the only ones I've seen are all on cables, with few exceptions.
Like our roads we have yet to fix/modernize
@@-YellowFruit- where in Michigan?? Either I'm not paying attention to how traffic lights are suspended or you don't live in Michigan. Also our roads/ALL MAJOR INTERSTATES/FREEWAYS have been completely redone/still going since Whitmer became governor. It was one of the main parts of her campaign, and she actually did it unlike 99% of politicians ever in history.
@@sjohnson65456 I live in a small town in South west Michigan. Just about every light I see has got cables except for lights in places like Grand rapids.
While many of our roads have definitely been made better, many roads also haven't. Most roads I drive on the only work they have done on them has been just pouring asphalt into the cracks into the road which makes driving on said roads not exactly comfortable, sometimes even a little dangerous.
Could just be this one specific area I'm from that has this issue or it could be a far bigger issue that effects more of the state than I think. Not saying that just because this is what I've seen in Michigan means that every place in Michigan is exactly what I say it is but that's just what I've seen and experienced.
I live in a Canadian border city, and everywhere I’ve ever gone in Canada has had traffic lights affixed to poles. But whenever I cross into America I see these traffic lights dangling on strings and wonder how this isn’t a more common occurrence.
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 🤷🏼♂️
Where do they make traffic lights like that? Who even thought that this would be a good idea?
That’s why you don’t hang your traffic lights on a live wire, put a pole up so it has protection and as an added bonus no pedestrians get their shit rocked by flying traffic lights 🤣
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?
Thank God no one was hurt, God was looking after them.❤
When you see this traffic light signal, it means engage your vehicles turbines and follow to taxi.
"THEY DIDN'T TEACH ME THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL"
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
Never knew they had traffic lights on wires and not poles
Pretty common across the state of Georgia and other states as well, never liked how they look, and as you can see..they aren't very wind resistant compared to mast arm mounted lights
@@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)
@@movingtargetproductions5046 I know...I work on them for a living...hence my prof pic , I've seen them mounted across several lanes on a mast arm, but they have a pole on the other side to attach to so wind won't move them, now I've also seen them mounted on top of a pole, as high as 10+feet from the ground, and the plastic heads tend to snap off under extreme wind
Me neither, I’ve never seen them hung on wires in real life except on internet videos
Also it’s common in Michigan too
why did that feel so relatable...
That traffic light be gettin it down to the beat in the guys car
WoW what Kind of Hanging Traffic Lights are Those...Never Seen one in my entire Life Except for now.