Construction Traffic Signals

Italy has a very common need for temporary one-way traffic patterns. The roads are narrow, and roadwork, rock falls, and even scaffolding for roof work on curbside buildings can make two-way traffic impossible. Since these are not situations resolved in a few hours, signalmen are not an option.

Instead they use battery-powered roadside signals I have never seen in the United States. Here we are waiting for one in one of the tiny towns we passed through today. The wait time was very long because the section of road under reconstruction was quite long. Perhaps that explains the sign on the battery box giving the number to call in case of emergency.




While we waited I made you a picture of the pedestrian ways into town.




Several miles later, another one. This was at the site of a small landslide that took out the paved road several months ago.




Green light! Time to cross the narrow off-road track now connecting the two parts of this state road.




Michael