Australian traffic signals

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The above four photos are at the Punt Road / Swan Street intersection in Richmond, Vic.
The first is looking west along Swan Street showing 9 aspect signals.
The other 3 photos are looking east and show 11 aspect signals plus an unlit sign which I assume reads NO RIGHT TURN.
Unfortunately I don't know what the 2 centre lanterns (above the unlit sign) are for.

St Kilda Road, Linlithgow Avenue and Southbank Boulevard.
This intersection has 6 aspect signals for trams as well as the usual traffic signals. Resulting in two posts here having a total of 12 aspects each.  I know of a 14 lamp signal….later.
The tram signals have red and yellow 'T' lanterns and white arrows.
The tram signals do not simply repeat the same aspects given to other vehicles as this series of photos show. 


Note also the tramway point indicator in the photos on the right. This has a diagonal or vertical white bar to indicate which direction the track is set for the tram. I confess that I am not certain what the top indication is. Presumably a     horizontal bar, perhaps while the point is changing. I guess I    didn't pay sufficient attention.


The Shrine of Remembrance can be seen in the background of some of these photos.
St Kilda Rd is one of Melbourne's main roads to have three "carriageways". Trams run in the centre with 2 lanes of traffic in each direction. The two side roads have 2 lanes plus
parking.

Tram stops. This is taken from the same tram stop the above photos were taken at. Notice how close the other stop is to the one just on the other side of Southbank Blvd. About 100m. Note also that  traffic lights are provided for pedestrian access to the tram stop on the centre carriageway. But apparently not the side carriageway. The yellow-painted concrete device is designed to stop or deflect any vehicles and hopefully prevent them hitting anyone waiting for the tram. These once had alternating flashing lights similar to the pedestrian crossing below.

Traffic signal with larger and squarer target board than normal. These are uncommon. But I've seen a few of them. Neither the red or green lamp worked when I took this in January 2002.
There are
NO RIGHT TURN signs that flash during peak traffic. One can be seen  attached to the overhead signal here.
Abbotsford / Richmond, Vic.

Victorian pedestrian crossing. These two signals are at the same crossing in Richmond, Vic. The alternating flashing lights, with a round sign below, showing a pair of walking legs, was once very   common, but began to vanish in the 1980's (from my own observations), often replaced by traffic lights.
The photo on the right shows one of these signals pretty much as they       appeared in the 1960 and 70's. Apart from the newer signs shown here, which do not have the word
crossing or the earlier lines representing the crossing itself as seen in the 2 images below the photos.                         Continued  >>>

The control box near the top of the post reads "EAGLE TRAFFIC CONTROL".
The flashers in these were mechanical and it was not uncommon to see irregular flashing or one light stick on when these wore out.
The green painted signals look rather odd as they have had their visors mounted sideways. I've concluded that, as the signal is attached to a modern octagonal streetlight post, that they were removed from their original post, and later inadvertently remounted sideways.
New installations of such crossings do      occasionally occur, but with modern black lantern housings and target boards. As far as I know, other states just had the signs. No lights.

On a side note. The round yellow pedestrian sign along with the
Safety Zone signs used at tram stops, appear to be leftovers from the time when many Australian road signs were on yellow circles rather than yellow          diamond signs.

Unusual red arrow signal at Napier Lane near the Punt Road / Bridge Road intersection in Richmond, Vic.
Used to keep turning traffic colliding with faster moving traffic turning from Bridge Road.

Traffic signal with protected/ permissive right turn arrows.
The place where the red arrow would be if it were required has been blanked off.
This one is at a quiet rural intersection near a power station. It isn't really needed now. But during shift changes the    intersection must've got quite busy to have needed traffic lights at all.
Loy Yang, Vic.

A line up of NSW traffic signals.
Reference to my Sydway street directory and matching the photo to a map. It would appear that this is William Street, Darlinghurst.
The sign lower right reads
Stop here on red arrow.
Austroads photo (1980's)

Traffic signals in New South Wales usually have a white border on the target board. They often have shorter visors too.
NSW also has some intersections that allow a left turn on a red signal. Something only  allowed in a slip lane in Victoria.
Austroads photo. (1980's)

Portable road works traffic light.
A number of these in Victoria have the white border on the target board.
It seems strange to me that these trailers appear to use mains voltage traffic signals powered by a generator when filling it with batteries and using low voltage signals would seem more sensible.
Bunyip, Vic.

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