Photo Gallery: Single Guywire Traffic Light Mast
Photo Gallery Roadway Fixtures

guywired signalVirtually all overhead traffic lights, attached to utility poles within NYC, hang off of one of these single guywire-type masts. This one was shot in 1992, at the confluence of Rockaway's Beach Channel Drive, Freeway and Seagirt Avenue. The badly neglected intersection still made do with the old 2-light traffic lights. This mast holds the modern style 2-lighter. Some oldstyle box signals were still at this intersection as well. Modern 2-light signals were forced into action whenever a corner needed a new signal, but the rest of the intersection still had 2-light box signals.

© 1997, Jeff Saltzman.