Submitted By: Ted G
Favorite Comment: Fixer Jeff says, “I see potential space for parking meters! That empty space isn’t going to gain revenue for the city on its own!”
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Not much choice about stopping for that light, whether it’s red or not!
What part of “Stop” don’t you understand?
At least it’s RED!
That’s no problem! They just need to move the road over a little bit…there, they fixed it!
I’d hate to use this intersection at night! Imagine being in the car stopped in the second lane from the left, then another driver zooms up beside you in the left lane. Ooh boy…
Stop means stop, and they’re not kidding!
This MUST be photoshopped!
Looks fake.
If you’re on the left you’re screwed for real, cauz of the forbidden continuous line you can’t cross to go on the right…
Another one, very similar, from Püspökladány, Hungary:
http://urbanista.blog.hu/2009/07/07/hihetetlen_korforgalom_puspokladanyban
The construction company said, they can only remove the column after the power lines are relocated to another column which is the duty of the power company.
You guys don’t understand, only motorcycles can turn left here
Look like Calcutta! with less pollution and cows.
Is this in the same city as the “Blueprint Miscalculation”? It’s like the whole light grid shifted a meter to the left.
On a green light, this changes from an intersection to a bi-section.
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Is this what they mean by “pole position?”
c’mon, this has got to be photoshopped. Can anyone vouch for this being real? Maybe have a different angle photo?
@Angie K
Bad news for you. Only two corners away from my home there was a wooden utility pole just like this one, about a third of the way in an intersection. Every saturday morning there would only be half a utility pole hanging from wires. After only 7 years they got the message and stopped fixing it and left the cables just hanging.
The cherry on top for this photo is that if you look across the street, you can see that there’s a pole in the intersection there, too.
@Angie K
Same pole/street situation in the background. Look how the white car had to straddle the lanes. Apparently, this was the easiest way for the city to do away with those left turn lanes. Unsafe, but easier than tearing up the street.
I can hear the meeting they had before widening this intersection.
“Ok, now we will be looking at this intersection here.” **man points to spot on the large map** “We are going to change this one lane with turn lane highway into a two lane with turn lane highway.” **everyone claps for a second** “I know we’ve done all this before, but there is one thing that will be different, we won’t be moving the stoplight poles.” **everyone claps furiously** “I see you know what I’m thinking…no electrical work will need to be done, which means less money to spend.” **more clapping** “Yes, thank you. Saving money is always on my mind. Oh, and no worries about the people who will crash into the pole, they’ll be fine.” **everyone moves on** “You all will be receiving a bonus on your next paycheck as well.”
“Ossifer, I don’t know. It just jumped out in front of me.”
Stupid Americans.
At least the stop will work. Not so much the go…
Budget cuts.
Obama wants to stop ALL our freedoms.
I thought this site was about fix-ups, not fails.
Man, could you imagine if all these images came from one town somewhere. That would be a pretty messed up place.
Innovation not seen in the picture: All the lights are red.
Cop pulls a guy over for blowing a stop sign. The cop says, “You didn’t stop.” The guy says, “I slowed down.” The cop takes out his billy club and starts hitting the guy. The cop asks, “Do you want me to slow down or do you want me to stop?”
Idle question:why does the far traffic light have a top bar that stretches across the entire street? There is a light on the middle of the top on the left but not the right, and the top bar only goes halfway across the near side.
gee When they said no left turn they mean it.
Cant you see the alignment with the traffic light at the back?
This is placed intentionnaly like that
Well, if the light turning red doesn’t give them the hint, that pole certainly will!
If anyone knows where this was taken, then the street/city name (or even better, GPS co-ordinates) will be enough to prove whether it’s real or fake — we can all just look at it on Google Earth, if it’s real it should be clearly visible.
@hukes
Exactly my thoughts. It would belong on this site if somehow, someone had modded their car to fit around the pole…
I see potential space for parking meters! That empty space isn’t going to gain revenue for the city on its own!
@Amilie
Right! That would be a great one.
It amazes me how there is no traffic in front of that light. You’d think there would be a line of cars stuck behind that light waiting for it to move….
@Hukes & Amilie
Actually, you can’t see it from this angle but the fix is in the light itself- the timing mechanism was repaired using only a bent paper clip and a short lungth of mint dental floss (the oddly-placed pole was just a coincidence).
(“lungth” = German slang for “length”)
@dono
I know ‘LOL’ has been abused to incredible extents, but this time you really made me LOL.
That was great.
That’s not from around here. We don’t have palm trees, and we don’t put license plates on the front of cars.
We do have lots of orange and white construction barrels. I see one across the street, and I imagine that the photographer worked hard to get a shot without other visible barrels.
This is a construction scheduling fail. To make it appropriate to this site, someone should have taken a yellow piece of wood, added grey stripes to it with duct tape, and nailed it to the median and duct taped the other end to the base of the pole. This would have widened the median to include the pole.
This would leave the lane too narrow, so they could use a can of white spray paint, to draw a new diagonal line, and a can of black spray paint to cross out the part of the original white line, that shouldn’t be there. Or just put up a cardboard sign that reads “skinny cars only, left lane”.
At least we know which side of the road to drive on.
Well the general contractor did say “Plans and specs, no change orders”. But they were consistant because it’s the same coming the other direction.
@JMofromTO
I think you are right!
The median strip would be easier to move than the light poles!
@hukes
Aw man, this _is_ a fix-up. The median looks like it’s routinely chewed up by drunk Ted Kennedy drivers and doubtlessly the median is where the pole was originally mounted.
The _problem_ that the repair engineers had was the concrete in to which they drove the lag bolts had been drilled and relagged so many times that the pole could no longer be mounted in the degenerate concrete, so the repair people rebolted the pole in to fresh ground — which happens to be in the left turn lane.
It’s red for a reason…
FAKE! FAKE! FAKE!
I said, “A little to the left…”
That light is going to have to stay red!
I love your WordPress theme, is it a custom theme?
the darn thing ran in the middle of the road. i couldn’t stop.
it’s ok, the lights are for the cars.
In germany the lights are very often on the bikeway, that’s not ok.
I see the fine hand of Laurel and Hardy here.
like the red is the reason im gonna stop