Flashing green

A flashing green is the same as a left turn green arrow. I have seen this
all over Canada.


(Robert M. Gary) wrote in
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I just flew my Mooney up to Vancouver (this is somewhat aviation
related). When I got there I noticed that sometimes the traffic lights
were just green and other times they were flashing green. I asked many
locals what the difference was and none of them knew. Some thought it
was related to the crosswalks but I noted no cooreleation between an
intersection having a crosswalk or having someone pushing the walk
button and the flashing. Perhaps I'm just being a nerdy engineer but
I'm really curious if anyone in Canada knows what this means.

-Robert

Flashing green means cleared to taxi for aircraft on ground and return for
landing for aircraft in flight. What kind of pilot's license did you say
you have?

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
om...
I just flew my Mooney up to Vancouver (this is somewhat aviation
related). When I got there I noticed that sometimes the traffic lights
were just green and other times they were flashing green. I asked many
locals what the difference was and none of them knew. Some thought it
was related to the crosswalks but I noted no cooreleation between an
intersection having a crosswalk or having someone pushing the walk
button and the flashing. Perhaps I'm just being a nerdy engineer but
I'm really curious if anyone in Canada knows what this means.

-Robert

"Dan Thompson" wrote in message
. ..
Flashing green means cleared to taxi for aircraft on ground and return for
landing for aircraft in flight. What kind of pilot's license did you say
you have?

What does his pilots have to do with TRAFFIC lights?


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
om...
I just flew my Mooney up to Vancouver (this is somewhat aviation
related). When I got there I noticed that sometimes the traffic lights
were just green and other times they were flashing green. I asked many
locals what the difference was and none of them knew. Some thought it
was related to the crosswalks but I noted no cooreleation between an
intersection having a crosswalk or having someone pushing the walk
button and the flashing. Perhaps I'm just being a nerdy engineer but
I'm really curious if anyone in Canada knows what this means.

-Robert

Flashing Green is when the light have changed from Red and mean that it is
ok to proceed but do so cautiously as the other direction just got the red.



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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
om...
I just flew my Mooney up to Vancouver (this is somewhat aviation
related). When I got there I noticed that sometimes the traffic lights
were just green and other times they were flashing green. I asked many
locals what the difference was and none of them knew. Some thought it
was related to the crosswalks but I noted no cooreleation between an
intersection having a crosswalk or having someone pushing the walk
button and the flashing. Perhaps I'm just being a nerdy engineer but
I'm really curious if anyone in Canada knows what this means.

-Robert

Yah, I think I was in Mexico when I saw the flashing green to red thing.

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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"BillC85" wrote in message
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Sometimes it means the light is getting ready to turn red.

I thought that was what yellow was. They should provide a book on this
stuff before they rent you a car.

It was a JOKE.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Dan Thompson" wrote in message
. ..
Flashing green means cleared to taxi for aircraft on ground and return
for
landing for aircraft in flight. What kind of pilot's license did you
say
you have?

What does his pilots have to do with TRAFFIC lights?


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
om...
I just flew my Mooney up to Vancouver (this is somewhat aviation
related). When I got there I noticed that sometimes the traffic lights
were just green and other times they were flashing green. I asked many
locals what the difference was and none of them knew. Some thought it
was related to the crosswalks but I noted no cooreleation between an
intersection having a crosswalk or having someone pushing the walk
button and the flashing. Perhaps I'm just being a nerdy engineer but
I'm really curious if anyone in Canada knows what this means.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary wrote:
I just flew my Mooney up to Vancouver (this is somewhat aviation
related). When I got there I noticed that sometimes the traffic lights
were just green and other times they were flashing green. I asked many
locals what the difference was and none of them knew. Some thought it
was related to the crosswalks but I noted no cooreleation between an
intersection having a crosswalk or having someone pushing the walk
button and the flashing. Perhaps I'm just being a nerdy engineer but
I'm really curious if anyone in Canada knows what this means.

-Robert
After reading the many previous posts, it is obvious that the flashing
green doesn't have a definitive answer. The flashing green system
really doesn't help if everyone thinks it means something different.

Back when I took drivers-ed in the 60's, the book referenced "old"
traffic lights that only had a green and a red. A flashing green was
used to indicate the meaning of the modern yellow light. This was in
the US, not Canada. I never saw this system in the US, but maybe Canada
implemented the same system and never got rid of it.

On 2004-07-09 01:56, Icebound wrote:
"Milen Lazarov" wrote in message
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Flashing green means that the crossing traffic has a stop sign (or a
flashing red, which is the same) instead of a red light. You still have
right of way but you can expect cars coming out of the side streets
turning left or right.
At some intersections there are no lights at all for the crossing
traffic, just a stop sign. At others, most of the time the lights will
stay in this mode on the main street and would change to red only if
there's a real backup on the cross streets.



Everybody in the world uses flashing yellow for this. Are you saying BC
still uses green???



The whole world doesn't seem to include Sweden; here a flashing yellow
warns that some of the streetlights in the crossing are inoperable.
(then rules for unguarded crossings apply)

btw. "IFR" I've also heard explained as "I Follow the Road", but I've
seldom flown so low I needed to worry about the streetlights.

/Rolf

m pautz wrote:
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After reading the many previous posts, it is obvious that the flashing
green doesn't have a definitive answer. The flashing green system
really doesn't help if everyone thinks it means something different.
...

No, the flashing green in British Columbia has a definitive answer (see
http://www.icbc.com/Licensing/PDFs-C...7%20ch8web.pdf for the
answer if you really care to know). Just people are posting what a
flashing green in their area of the world means, or they are posting
what they think a flashing green means or they are posting what a
flashing green used to mean years ago. What else would you expect when
you ask a question in a newsgroup?

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"Dan Thompson" wrote in message ...
Flashing green means cleared to taxi for aircraft on ground and return for
landing for aircraft in flight. What kind of pilot's license did you say
you have?

I just hold a California class C non-commercial. I did consider
getting an M1 at one point. They seemed happy to accept it in Canada.

-Robert, CFI