difference I see is the exender box protrusion. I like my ped's without them, I like small and compact personally! To each their own.

The lamp case on the front doors of ped signals are used to fully light the larger area. Dont really need it in an LED head but only a few manufacturers take the time or costs to retool molds for something that doesnt really effect anything

Oddly enough the Fortran poly pedestrian signal had 4 variations of doors. One is the round door, which is identical that what's used on the vehicle signals. The other three are square doors in different depths, there was a shallow one (similar in depth to the CGE ones), the medium depth shown in the pic and a deep one.

The Square doors look better, The CGE signal looks really good with the square lenses

Mine is currently configured like that (with flat glass square DONT WALK/WALK lenses), I'm not sure if they used flat glass lenses at one point or was the bubble lens all they used.

They were poly before the only ones that have all squares are at Dixie and Williams

I like the round ones better personally, these just seem too "boxy" to me.

these looks like PEEK head almost...

If they're LED I like the one with the slim square door but for incandescent the round one looks better.

Yeah, PEEK/TCT/Chapel Hill/Crouse Hinds Type R and Fortran poly signals all used the same basic design so they look almost identical to each other.

I just realized this is a regional road. So in this city there are municipally maintained roads and also some regionally maintained ones. Their design standards are pretty interweaved and therefore new projects by either jurisdiction seem to have the same design standards, except one difference I've noticed is new regional roads always use box doors, for example here, with a different count down module. Why? Somebody help me answer that...

I don't know why they do that but I like the newer box glass lens. Im tired of the ones that are almost everywhere! I saw new CGE's in St Catherines when I was there the other day

IIRC, those are actually new aluminium Econolite signals. They somewhat common in Halton and in St. Catherines for some reason. If you look up the Niagara Restore, it's close by there xD.

The ones in the link are indeed Econolite aluminum signals. CGE was bought by Fortran if I'm not mistaken

Thats disappointing, and yea it isn't far from the Niagara Restore.

Well, the aluminium Econolites look pretty nice and it's nice to see someone use new aluminium signals again.

CGE sold off their signal division sometime in the late 80s-early 90s to Fortran. There's also a company know as Niart that made the CGE design for a short while.

Thats the first time I ever saw those before.

The aluminum fixtures look better but it seems that all these companys look up to CGE's design for pedestrian signals.

Also depends on who bought the tooling from GE. I know Fortran had some but arent producing that model. Another smaller canadian manufacturer "Niart" also used the same molds with different badging

Does anyone know what happened to Niart? All I know is that they made signals identical to the CGE and aluminium Fortran design.

@above: are the similar to Crouse-Hinds also?

I think the Econolite dosen't really but the Fortran poly design in the picture is almost a duplicate of the Crouse Hinds type R series.