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Are you looking to add traffic lights to your next construction project? These are an essential addition to any event or worksite, and here at RPM Hire, we have a wide range of portable traffic lights available for hire. In addition to standard portable traffic lights, we also stock pedestrian traffic lights which include a button for pedestrians to press when they approach the traffic lights and are ready to cross the road. 

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These powerful units are completely programmable to your needs, allowing you to develop a safe and smooth flow of traffic across any site. These solar-powered solutions come with a simple traffic light controller program, allowing you to quickly and efficiently update your timings. 

Are you wondering how do traffic lights work? We have put together a quick guide to help you understand more about traffic lights.

Why should you use portable traffic lights?

Portable traffic lights are a crucial addition to any construction site or major event and can provide you with a wide range of benefits, including:

• Increased Safety

When it comes to programming traffic lights, the most important thing to focus on is safety. The use of these machines will remove the need to have a human traffic controller on the road, reducing the risk of your staff being injured. 

They will also ensure you can correctly manage the flow of traffic through the site, ensuring your guests can enter, pass, and exit safely. 

• Clear visibility

The addition of portable traffic lights also ensures maximum visibility for drivers. These units utilise powerful and vibrant LED lights, which makes them clearly visible day or night. These LEDs can also be seen from a long distance away, ensuring motorists will be able to react to the changing road conditions, further boosting safety. 

• Convenient 

Portable traffic lights are very convenient. Not only can they be quickly manoeuvred around, but they are also very easy to set up. Programming traffic lights is very quick to do and requires very little training or preparation. 

To take that convenience even further, all of our traffic lights are powered by solar panels and come with a backup generator, ensuring that they can operate around the clock. 

• Cost efficient 

Using portable traffic lights is also a very cost effective solution. When you are able to remove the need for the additional staff to control and manage traffic, it reduces your costs and improves your overall efficiency.  

Not only are these traffic lights an affordable solution, but they can also help you to save money. Many insurance providers offer lower premiums for events and construction projects have proven and reliable traffic management equipment in place. 

 

How do traffic lights work?

Let&#;s take a look into how traffic lights work. This is one of the most common questions that our customers ask, and understanding their system will help make it easier to use the traffic light controller program. 

No matter whether you are running an event that will welcome hundreds of visitors or you have a construction project that impacts a public road, traffic lights are essential to maintain a safe and steady flow. Portable traffic lights typically offer three methods of operation (With the capability of a 3 and 4 way set up):

• Vehicle Actuated 

This is where the traffic lights utilise a sensor to recognise cars, changing the signals from red to green according to the traffic. 

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• Fixed Time 

A fixed time traffic light controller program us one that sees the unit change the signals after a set period of time, no matter the traffic. 

• Manual 

Manual programming of traffic lights is where an individual remains in full control of the system, filtering between signals as required. 

Portable traffic lights can be used in a wide range of scenarios and can be positioned across large sites, major traffic routes, interchanges, and more. They can also be used to control the flow of heavy equipment across your construction site. 

 

Need support with your next project?

Incorporating an effective traffic light controller program is essential to improving the safety and efficiency of your event or construction project. However, we know how confusing it can be when it comes to programming traffic lights. That is why our experienced team is on hand to help you. 

We pride ourselves on delivering the very best equipment possible for our clients, and we have an extensive array of traffic equipment available to support you. We know that anything can happen, which is why to ensure you have complete peace of mind, we offer a full coverage guarantee. That means you are protected in the event of theft, incidental damage, collisions, vandalism and even natural disasters. 

Not confident of programming your traffic lights yourself? Fear not! Our friendly RPM Hire team are on hand to support you every step of the way and ensure that you can get the very best from your equipment. Alongside this, we provide around the clock support and free access to our innovative technology. 

 

Want to find out more? Get in touch today! 

 

Right Filter Traffic Lights - FFX-DM

There is a similar junction near me and I have always assumed that to turn right on the normal green is okay, because the right filter arrow is only turned on at peak times, so in other words, you normally turn right at the standard signal only.

BTW, I am a bit confused about this legitimately sitting in the box thing. I thought that the rule was NO entering the box unless your exit was clear. Understandable? yes, but legitimate? Can somebody enlighten me? I realise that we all see lots of people doing this and have all probably done it ourselves too, but are their genuinely exceptions to the rule, like the one described? Reply | Report as offensive Link

Right Filter Traffic Lights - Dwight Van Driver

Box junctions have criss crossed yellow lines painted on the road.

You MUST NOT enter the Box until your exit road or lane from it is clear.

But you may enter the Box when you want to turn right and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic or by vehicles waiting to turn right.

HC Rule 113

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Right Filter Traffic Lights - Cardew

DVD,
A question on a variation of this theme.

A dual carriageway I use has a long additional(third) filter lane for traffic to turn right at traffic lights - the junction has yellow box marking. There are always lots of cars in the filter lane and it takes 2 or 3 changes of lights to make a right turn as there is always oncoming traffic.

A number of impatient regulars can't be bothered to wait their turn and wait in the straight ahead lane. When the lights for that lane go green(a round green) they pull onto the box and form a parallel queue of traffic waiting to turn right. Inevitably this second queue stops those wishing to go straight on, and to compound matters both queues turning right have to merge into a single lane road. Thus fewer cars in the correct filter lane cross the junction for each round of lights.

So, in the light of your earlier thread, do you agree that the impatient queue jumping P***** have done nothing illegal?

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Right Filter Traffic Lights - Dwight Van Driver

Cardew

Off the top of my head:

Because of the presence of the right filter lane, then this should be used for right turning traffic leaving the two lanes of the DC for straight ahead/left from the n.s.

If traffic are clogging the o.s.lane of the DC and not using the filter lane then IMHO there must be a case of considering unnessary obstruction - an offence.

To get the full legal implication of the box one has to see what
is written in the Bible (Traffic Signs and General Direction Regulations). I do not have access to the full Regs themselves and that on the Web does not identify the signs only mentions their number.

Bit wishy washy - sorry.

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Right Filter Traffic Lights - Cardew

DVD,
The first 2 or 3 cars can get onto the yellow hatched box without obstructing the o.s. lane of the DC and are, in effect, just jumping the queue of right turning vehicles.

It is the 3rd or 4th car that cannot get onto the box that causes the obstruction. It might be a bit difficult to sort out who to charge with unnecessary obstruction?

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Left Filter at Traffic Lights - Andrew-T

Brian - Right Turn on Red has been a common sight in US and Canada for at least 40 years, and can be very handy. Trouble is, it is a local option - i.e. up to the town authority, so one town may have it while the next one doesn't. Reply | Report as offensive Link

Left Filter at Traffic Lights - BrianW

Andrew
Or there's the London solution.
For the uninitiated you just ignore all traffic lights, no right turn signals, speed limits, etc. and save energy by not indicating, having only one brake light working, etc.

Brian
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Left Filter at Traffic Lights - Dave_TD

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Also save money by not buying new tyres, insurance, tax disc etc... Reply | Report as offensive Link