Syracuse, New York, upside-down light

[SlaveToTheGrind]

TIL there is a light in the Tipp Hill neighborhood of Syracuse that is reversed - green on top, red on bottom. From Wiki: Tipperary Hill is the home of the only upside-down traffic light in the United States. When the city first started to install traffic signal lights in the 1920s, one was installed at a major intersection on Tipperary Hill, on the corner of Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue. Some Irish youths, incensed at the symbolism of the "British" red being placed above the "Irish" green, broke the light. Several replacements were also broken until the city decided to invert the traffic light to pacify the locals.

I wonder is there is signage to notify the colorblind of the light.

 

[The Terminator]

YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THE IRISH!!!!! ERIN GO BRAGH!!!

Upstate New York legendary traffic light, we all know about it and revere it. Im only 1/4 Irish, but have always loved this story.

 

[Gedunker]

I have been thinking the MUTCD should allow LED traffic signals that show only the controlled color - entirely red, entirely yellow, or entirely green, as appropriate. Surface area would be at least 3x larger than present, LEDs would be more likely to be clearly visible where current signals are obscured by sunlighting conditions. Anybody wanna make a fortune marketing new traffic signal heads with me?

 

[jumbach]

That's the standard for railroad signals anyway, so there is precedent. Except that in railroading, a green signal itself means nothing--it would have a red below it showing as well. Green over red? Full speed ahead. (Red over green? Slow or be dead. (Only red/red means stop entirely.)

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

I have been thinking the MUTCD should allow LED traffic signals that show only the controlled color - entirely red, entirely yellow, or entirely green, as appropriate. Surface area would be at least 3x larger than present, LEDs would be more likely to be clearly visible where current signals are obscured by sunlighting conditions. Anybody wanna make a fortune marketing new traffic signal heads with me?

A single lens that cycles through each color and 3x the size? Makes sense so it will not happen. I cannot see a negative. Simple tech, today.

 

[jumbach]

That's the standard for railroad signals anyway, so there is precedent. Except that in railroading, a green signal itself means nothing--it would have a red below it showing as well. Green over red? Full speed ahead. (Red over green? Slow or be dead. (Only red/red means stop entirely.)

Fun fact: At Disney railroads, they use a blinking green to mean "stop." They don't want to upset the guests by making them see a red light. Really.

In any other railroad, blinking green can have any number of meanings, usually "train being controlled by ATC for spacing."