This is my favorite traffic light intersection! I love the vintage 3M left turn traffic light on the arm and its "partner", the auxiliary louvered 8-8-12 left turn signal on far left. Somehow this screams classic California setup to me. I didn't grow up in SD, but I grew up in Northern California. When I was a kid (mid to late 90s), the combination of the 3M signal with the 8-8-12 signal was on almost every intersection in my city. I was fascinated why I couldn't see the 3M signal and the 8-8-12 louvered signal unless I was at a specific spot (the car in the left turn lane. Obviously my mom or dad was driving the car.) Now, I know why both signals were designed that way. Sadly, as I got older, my city started to upgrade all their intersections with newer signals. This of course, involved removing the 3M and the 8-8-12 signals and replacing them with modern left turn arrow signals.
Luckily San Diego still has a lot of 3M and 8 8 12 left turn signals, and the cool thing about them here is that this is a major intersection and those old 3M and 8 8 12's serve a long line of turning cars all day every day so they are very busy signals.
This is my favorite traffic light intersection! I love the vintage 3M left turn traffic light on the arm and its "partner", the auxiliary louvered 8-8-12 left turn signal on far left. Somehow this screams classic California setup to me. I didn't grow up in SD, but I grew up in Northern California. When I was a kid (mid to late 90s), the combination of the 3M signal with the 8-8-12 signal was on almost every intersection in my city. I was fascinated why I couldn't see the 3M signal and the 8-8-12 louvered signal unless I was at a specific spot (the car in the left turn lane. Obviously my mom or dad was driving the car.) Now, I know why both signals were designed that way.
Sadly, as I got older, my city started to upgrade all their intersections with newer signals. This of course, involved removing the 3M and the 8-8-12 signals and replacing them with modern left turn arrow signals.
Luckily San Diego still has a lot of 3M and 8 8 12 left turn signals, and the cool thing about them here is that this is a major intersection and those old 3M and 8 8 12's serve a long line of turning cars all day every day so they are very busy signals.
wow, Even countdowns have a vintage look despite being not being from 60-90's.
They were installed there in 2005.
Bostion had these countdowns installed in like 1998 or 1999 most of them are dead now
LED countdowns didn't exist until 2005.