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Double Guy Traffic Light
Old Double guys on a marblelite pole. And a gasoline powered siren
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Double Guy Traffic Light

Old Double guys on a marblelite pole. And a gasoline powered siren

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Filename:CIMG3088.JPG
Album name:rlshieldjr / Traffic Signals
Keywords:Traffic_Lights
Filesize:33 KiB
Date added:Oct 22, 2010
Dimensions:480 x 398 pixels
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Color Space:Uncalibrated
Contrast:0
DateTime Original:2010:10:17 12:09:16
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Exposure Mode:0
Exposure Program:Program
Exposure Time:1/400 sec
FNumber:f/7.6
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:10.7 mm
ISO:64
Light Source:Unknown: 0
Make:Casio Computer Co.,ltd.
Max Aperture:f/3.8
Model:EX-Z9
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Form109   [Oct 22, 2010 at 08:28 PM]
nice double guy wired arms!..if they still made those it would be nice to see them being installed widespread again.

siren also looks like a Big Tuba Laughing
GullWhiz   [Oct 22, 2010 at 08:56 PM]
in NYC they still make the double guylines for traffic light masts...I remember a few of those being put up!
Silverliner14B   [Oct 23, 2010 at 01:15 AM]
They still make double guys for concrete poles here in Southern California. In Long Beach around the airport there's a replacement double guy that replaced a knockdown and there's a new double guy traffic light in Monrovia, CA.
Form109   [Oct 23, 2010 at 01:51 AM]
so are they just like the old Double Guy Wired arms?
joe_347V   [Oct 23, 2010 at 03:06 AM]
There's some older traffic signal masts here with double guy rods like these but I've haven't seen them use wired before, Nice!

The newer signal arms here are just a tapered e style mast instead.
Form109   [Nov 19, 2010 at 09:04 PM]
btw the siren looks like a Mobil Directo.
dbz77   [Apr 15, 2011 at 03:49 PM]
@ Silverliner:

Which intersection in Long Beach had the replacement double guy, and which intersection in Monrovia has the new double guy?

I do know that when the lamp poles and signal poles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood were replaced, the city of L.A. used double guy attachments for the traffic signals.
Silverliner14B   [Apr 15, 2011 at 03:54 PM]
The one in Long Beach is on Lakewood Blvd just south of Spring St. Its a light pole, no signal arm. It has a newer GE M400A3 street light, the others have M400A2s. Don't remember the street in Monrovia.
dbz77   [Apr 15, 2011 at 04:09 PM]
I remember those.

I also remember back in the '80's, the signal poles at that intersection (as well as the intersections with Wardlow and Willow) used a skinny signal pole with a curved mast arm single-point attachment for both the signal lamp and the traffic signal. It is similar to the present day setup, except that the left turn signal was not overhead, but on a median-mounted post.

If I remember correctly, Lakewood Boulevard south of Del Amo Boulevard was turned over to local control sometime in the previous decade. (Before that, CalTrans controlled it as Highway 19) It was after that that the city of Long Beach decided to replace the median mounted left turn signals with overhead left turn signals.

I also remember a knockdown at Broadway and Redondo in Long beach, and it was replaced with a concrete signal pole with a double guy attachment for the overhead lamp and the traffic signal. (I frequently drove through the area.)

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