Photo Gallery Roadway Fixtures
 This temporary
2-light traffic signal sweats out it's precarious assignment
at the busy corner of 9th Avenue and 39th Street, in Boro Park,
Brooklyn. Many trucks barrel down this stretch of 39th and it's
a good guess that one of them knocked down the previous signal.
The telltale T-base gives away the DOT plans to put up a new
signal.Vandals are most likely responsible for knocking this poor signal's upper sunvisor off and bending the lower visor to the side. I shot this in 1985. Shortly after this, the temp and it's catty-corner boxlight partner were dispatched and two double-guywire overhead signals took over the corner. The 9th Avenue BMT subway station is in the background. It served the Culver shuttle and the New Utrecht Avenue lines, until the shuttle was shut down in the 70's. At the time this was shot, the elevated sections of the shuttle were in the process of being razed. The shuttle occupied the lower level of this double-decked, open-cut station. |