Which of these traffic signal configurations is most common where you live?

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• Klinotaxis

  2017-04-20 19:32:44

  kill living beings
  

  mast arm. i think of hanging on lines as an east coast thing, which is probably not accurate.
  
• lee4hmz

  2017-04-20 21:11:34

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  it used to be one of the first two, though VDOT has been steadily converting things to mast arms wherever possible since at least the 1990s.
• Hexartes

  2017-04-20 21:13:23

  Box span.
• Imipolex G

  2017-04-20 21:16:55

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  number 3, I think? Although I never really paid attention to it
  
• MetaFour

  2017-04-20 22:35:37

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Mast arm here in SA, I'm pretty sure.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-04-21 02:47:10

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Mast arm, although when you get into Philly the box span is way more common.
• Tatterhood

  2017-04-21 02:54:05

  I've never seen the first one in my life. I think it's pretty much exclusively the third one hereabouts.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-04-21 02:56:17

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I have definitely seen the diagonal span but it's quite rare and I've mostly seen it in really old areas, like out in the residential district near Penn's Landing.
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-04-21 03:05:44

  amazingly, this is something i haven't paid attention to yet with regards to frequency, but i've definitely seen all three styles before
  
• Princess Alice

  2017-04-21 03:08:01

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  The diagonal span is fairly common in Ohio, albeit usually in rural areas or small communities.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
• Obā-san

  2017-04-21 03:17:42

  
  

  what im learning here is that apparently in other places in the world people love hanging large heavy objects on strings above where their cars go? terrifying
  
• Bee

  2017-04-21 03:24:04 edited 2017-04-21 03:24:52

  Mast arm in the sensible places that finally figured out heavy winds are a thing in the valley.  I don't think I've seen diagonal since I was little.

  
  

  Wait, there's one weirdass K-intersection back home that has sort of a triangle of lights strung up...somehow.
• Bee

  2017-04-21 03:26:57

  https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2131977,-123.3434365,3a,75y,53.81h,83.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGLzZm9ij6lTkc9k3RbyL9Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

  
  

  Looks like they've simplified it since I lived there.  I think it used to be a 4-way, but now it's just an oddly-angled T.
• Tatterhood

  2017-04-21 03:29:40

  Central Avenue said:

  The diagonal span is fairly common in Ohio, albeit usually in rural areas or small communities.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Actually looking at those pictures I feel like I actually have seen such a thing and maybe just not noticed the diagonal-ness. It's definitely not common in places I've been, though.