Dangerous Intersection

Posted October 14, 2010 * Comments(3)

Two competing roads both get the green light at this T intersection

Two competing roads both get the green light at this T intersection

In the U.S., traffic control boxes often have failsafe hardware that will prevent two competing roads from both getting a green light, just in case of some hardware or software failure.

Now which traffic engineer here in Chengdu, China thought it would be a good idea to purposely do this?

3 Comments so far

  1. Cloud Nolfi on November 9th, 2010

    this is really dangerous! where is the intersection ? when did you get this photo? seems like at night~

  2. jimmy on November 9th, 2010

    Here is a link to the intersection location. Yes, this picture was taken at night, around the beginning of October, just after I had been wandering Wangjiang Park in the dark.

    Google Maps link

  3. Jimmy on February 24th, 2011

    I passed by again in January and they seem to have fixed the signals here. They no longer provide a green light to competing roads simultaneously.

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