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MTO Truss Arms Here's a shot featuring both types of MTO truss arms. The ones on the freeway lanes are the more common 6 foot version while the one lighting the ramp is the less common 10 footer. The six foot trusses used to be quite common before MTO started installing highmast and using tapered e arms for cobraheads. The ten foots were less common since only ramps used them but I've seen MTO in recent years using them again to light ramps and overpasses. I'm not sure why they switched back to truss but hey I ain't complaining about the change. Also there's a arm in this pic which I'm sure used to hold a clamshell... Keywords: American_Streetlights

MTO Truss Arms

Here's a shot featuring both types of MTO truss arms. The ones on the freeway lanes are the more common 6 foot version while the one lighting the ramp is the less common 10 footer.

The six foot trusses used to be quite common before MTO started installing highmast and using tapered e arms for cobraheads. The ten foots were less common since only ramps used them but I've seen MTO in recent years using them again to light ramps and overpasses. I'm not sure why they switched back to truss but hey I ain't complaining about the change.

Also there's a arm in this pic which I'm sure used to hold a clamshell...

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streetlight98   [May 02, 2013 at 02:22 AM]
interesting how the single-lane ramps had longer arms than the multi-lane freeways. Laughing
joe_347V   [May 02, 2013 at 04:00 AM]
Yep, Laughing I find it interesting that MTO decided to repave the median and install new wood post guardrail instead of replacing everything with jersey barriers like they normally do though.
Model25FanForever   [Jan 26, 2017 at 01:33 AM]
No more truss lights here now. Sad New Cooper NVN's are taking over these truss lights as of August 2016. These are probably all gone now.Heres one of the few streetview updates that show the NVN's
streetlight98   [Jan 26, 2017 at 02:32 PM]
I wonder why they just didn't replace the lights with LEDs. The LEDs would probably look way better on the truss poles.
Model25FanForever   [Jan 26, 2017 at 02:46 PM]
Concrete poles are no longer used on the MTO highways anymore. The only truss lights on any of the 400 and other MTO series highways that got LED'd were on this same highway just further up over here . Metal poles are still acceptable to MTO, and some new reconstructed bridges on the QEW have new truss lights with LED's on them such as here
joe_347V   [Jan 30, 2017 at 02:23 AM]
Thanks for the update. I thought these would have stayed HPS for a while since the MTO kept them up when they replaced the guardrail on this section in 2013/2014. Yeah MTO dosen't use concrete on highways anymore, the weight of the concrete proved to be hazardous to drivers that hit the pole.

I noticed they also got rid of the concrete poles on the QEW in Mississauga while keeping the metal truss poles. The LEDs look better on the truss poles than on the tapered e poles to me.
Model25FanForever   [Jan 31, 2017 at 11:54 AM]
Yeah, now I wonder when the concrete poles on the Gardiner and QEW Hamilton will come down or get new metal poles. I think those are the only concrete truss lights left now.
joe_347V   [Jan 31, 2017 at 09:23 PM]
I'd imagine for the QEW Hamilton, sometime within the next 5 years. The MTO seems to be wanted to get rid of older standards and the section of guardrail there was pretty much a test section so I'm not surprised they'll replace everything in the coming years.

Not so sure about the Gardiner, the city of Toronto seemed to have installed new concrete poles in 2006 when they replaced the centre median barrier so those might stay for a while.
Model25FanForever   [Feb 01, 2017 at 12:37 PM]
Yeah, they even have those really old guardrails just north of the skyway. Only place ive ever seen those used. I wonder if they would just use high masts, hopefully not though.

Yeah that was a strange install. Im pretty sure the lights were just transferred from the old poles too. I remember seeing a Model 25 and an OV-25 on there too when they were first installed, they must have replaced them shortly after.
joe_347V   [Feb 05, 2017 at 06:38 AM]
Yeah, they used to have that same style of guardrail on the 400 between the 401 and Finch in the 90s but the MTO replaced everything with highmast and concrete in the late 90s. I wonder if they're gonna just install new poles like they did in Waterloo when they went from HPS to LED on the Conestoga Expressway. It seems like the MTO might be going LED soon, a test install on the 401 between Renforth and the 427 got LED highmasts.

Heh, must have been a Toronto low budget install, yeah they must replaced them soon since all I remember seeing are 125s on those new poles.

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