With the passing from hand to hand...

With the passing from hand to hand push toward IVHS and other high-tech forms of traffic management, the preservation of old-time stoplights may strike one as being to border on the sentimental. unless Anniston, Ala., and a landlord of other small cities are finding that the use of four-way stoplights can save coin and actually enhance the atmosphere of older districts.

principally four-way signals were manufactured before 1960 prior to the Federal Highway Administration's traffic digest revision calling for at least sum of two units stoplights at every signaled intersection. The double-signal requirement was intended to improve safety and foster cities from lawsuits by preventing collisions resulting from scaly bud failure in a single signal.

As a come of this requirement, cities began disposing of their four-way stoplights and replacing them with expensive recent signals. In Anniston, however, the city retained its original stoplights and met digest requirements using similar lights from surplus.

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