When LED stoplights are dangerous in cold weather situations

There is an old road called Vantage Highway near my house. There are many intersections on it, especially near to town.

There are many rural highways in the western states that I know of which fit this description.

Maybe such a thing doesn't exist in New Joisey any longer...I wouldn't know.
 
I know the feeling. We have similar intersections like that where I am.

For instance, the road going west and east is 2 lanes (1 each way). At this intersection with a stop sign, the lane going west splits into 2. The left lane is for left and straight while the right lane is for right only. For the lane going east, the left lane is for left only and the right is for straight and right.

There was one sign I saw at another intersection that had the left lane being U-turn, left-turn, or straight and the next lane being straight-only.
 
I looked up the road (the one I travel across every morning) on the internet, and yep, they referred it as highway too. Actually they called it primary state highway and they also called it as State Route. So I am right. it is a highway, but not the highway you are thinking of.
 
On Long Island, NY our 3 major thoroughfares are called 'Northern State Parkway', 'Long Island Expressway' & 'Southern State Parkway'. Sunrise Highway is the only highway on Long Island that I can think of off the top of my head. It has both intersections with stoplights & farther out on the Island it hasn't have any. Why...I do not know.
 
All you do is to keep eye on the traffic lights supports or whatever or the poles in day time...if it's night time, you're screwed. It doesn't matter if it's lit or not, just stop when it's not doing the job. IT doesn't happen 365 days a year, just a few days a year...not end of the world.

By the way, inscandient traffic light bulbs are rated at 67 watts at 8000 hours life, compared to the consumer ones are 60 watts at only 1000 hours and they break easy. I have a few of those bulbs...don't ask where I got them. They're durable and hard to break when you accidently drop the lamp or whatever.
 
That is right and believe it or not most have that law that states that if there is failure with red light, it automatically means stop sigh regardless. Sadly thi8s was never enforced nor mentions in traffic manual for new drivers. I have seen near accidents where people treat dead red light as green light, just think this way treat 4 way green light is an opportunity for serious accident to happen. If it was treated as red light, no way serious accident can happen. Wake up! I always treat dead red light as R E D period.

Banjo said:
It doesn't matter, you are to stop at the intersection if you are unable to see the traffic lights.
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Who cares? I don't live in heavily snow state so LED stoplights are very suitable to southern states and southwest states, unless it could override by blizzard or snowstorm like one in 1993 but LED stoplights aren't existed at time.
 
kokonut said:
Point number 1: Snow made the traffic light useless.
Point number 2: No driver could possibly have spotted a red light in time. and it'd be even worse with the green color since it would have been difficult to discern it at speed, especially during the daytime.
Point number 3: Might as well put stop signs at every intersection each winter since drivers wouldn't see the light at all or even noticed the traffice light hanging over in the middle of the intersection before it was too late.


You'd think it be easy to spot an intersection when everything is basically a white out?

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Picture of truck at snowy intersection with traffic light blotted out with snow.
New energy-efficient LED traffic lights can't melt snow, cities discover | National News - cleveland.com - - cleveland.com
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If you are whine about this situation so DON'T DRIVE AT ALL TIME, toobad, if you have job so no sympathy for you if you get fired for issue with attendance.

That's your problem.
 
This is me driving in this and I do NOT consider this a white out...:shock:
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sequoias said:
I think you're driving too fast for that kind of conditions.
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Could say.
Sporting four blizzaks on the Jeep makes it stop on a spot of dime.
Doing 50mph and seeing these cars come out of nowhere at 15mph, I braked and had enough room to spare...
 
rockdrummer said:
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in this case. use your common sense. if you see at least a green ... then go by that.If a green light is off, and all the other are lights buried under the snow mean it's a red. Although, I wouldn't go if I can't see the Left or right lights though. But my bigger common sense is telling me, that if this light is covered with snow, then all the other traffic lights probably are covered too, so it could be dangerous to go even if I could see the green light.

So I'll go with caution knowing there are very little to none traffics around me
 
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