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Another gem from The Wail. It makes me wonder if this is happening somewhere in Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... fines.html

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It has been for the last 10 years or so. They are called safety cameras here

No offence but how could someone believably doctor traffic lights without thousands of people daily noticing the lack of an amber stage? I reckon if those lights were installed in any of our cities they'd be an accident in minutes.

Bulb gone.
Simple.
Every bulb gone, simple.
Very few, if any, would report traffic lights if they [ever] noticed the lack of amber, they would just assume the bulb had gone.
After all, the sequence is:
Red
Red/Amber
Green

Then:
Green
Amber
Red

So, the lack of an amber on the approach to red would be a winner....
We have such lights in this town.
One road junction has lights that go:
Red
Red/Amber
Green

Then, after the green has been displayed for easily two seconds, they start the route back to red.

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56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

Over here there's usually at least three full size signal heads on a junction so a missing or blank amber would be fairly noticeable. I'm not sure/can't remember how Italian ones are set up. In France there's often one full size signal with a small a small one lower down on the pole, and that's it. Not as noticeable.

A traffic signals controller is just a computer, in theory you could tell it to do whatever you want. (or replace it with one which you can control easier) eg. Normally do the correct sequence, but sometimes at random miss the amber. Not too easy and you'd have to know what you're doing, but for cash it'd be worth it.

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Andrew.

Firstly -are traffic lights the same all over .Ours use a double filament bulb - hence the duller light on some -probably caused by a lower voltage on the auxiliary one to make it last . So to remove say amber from set -remove amber supply -possibly a link .Then just how many drivers would notice that the amber does not come on -times some do not notice that they've changed to green .

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