<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Tom Pfeifer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t.pfeifer@computer.org" target="_blank">t.pfeifer@computer.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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As for your continuous green light, you might have always observed that it is on, maybe because you have never been there at a time when it might be off</blockquote><div><br></div><div>In the US, where a light is continuous green, I've only ever seen it implemented one of two ways:</div><div><ul><li>The signal that has the continuous green only has one aspect. The only way it's going dark is in a power outage or the bulb blows.</li><li>The signal is a three-aspect, but only the green is wired up, and there is a sign next to it that explicitly says "This light is always green".<br></li></ul><div>I've also seen lights that are continuous red, again, only in two different ways:</div></div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>The signal that is continuous red is two aspect, the top one is steady and the bottom one has a blinker bulb; a sign indicates that you may only turn right on flashing red after stopping or no turn on steady red. The only signals I knew that did this has been replaced by a stop sign and a right turn only sign.<br></li><li>The signal is a red globe and has a right turn only sign or a sign that reads "This light does not turn green." This only makes sense where right turn on red after stop is a thing that exists.<br></li></ul></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>