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What are ramp signals?

Ramp signals are traffic lights at the top of motorway on-ramps that manage the flow of traffic onto the motorway during peak periods. With each green light, two cars (one from each lane) are able to drive down the ramp to merge easily, one at a time, with motorway traffic. Vehicles move forward every few seconds between green lights. Separating the vehicles travelling down the on-ramp makes merging onto the motorway easier and causes less disruption to motorway traffic flow.

View a video of how ramp signals work.

ramp-metering-diagram.jpgHow Ramp Signals Work

When lights are red:

Stop and wait for green signal.

When lights are green:

One vehicle in each lane goes. The next vehicle in each lane moves forward and waits for their turn. Ramp signals run on a quick cycle, only a few seconds between green lights.


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How about this?

 

What are ramp signals?

Ramp signals are traffic lights at the top of motorway on-ramps that manage the flow of traffic onto the motorway during peak periods. With each green light, two cars (one from each lane) are able to drive down the ramp to merge easily, one at a time, with motorway traffic. Vehicles move forward every few seconds between green lights. Separating the vehicles travelling down the on-ramp makes merging onto the motorway easier and causes less disruption to motorway traffic flow.

View a video of how ramp signals work.

ramp-metering-diagram.jpgHow Ramp Signals Work

When lights are red:

Stop and wait for green signal.

When lights are green:

One vehicle in each lane goes. The next vehicle in each lane moves forward and waits for their turn. Ramp signals run on a quick cycle, only a few seconds between green lights.

 

I don't think it will work in Singapore. I come across so many retard drivers with reaction so slow that they will be stuck at such lights for infinity. Also, it will be difficult to text when the lights are so fast.

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How about this?

 

What are ramp signals?

Ramp signals are traffic lights at the top of motorway on-ramps that manage the flow of traffic onto the motorway during peak periods. With each green light, two cars (one from each lane) are able to drive down the ramp to merge easily, one at a time, with motorway traffic. Vehicles move forward every few seconds between green lights. Separating the vehicles travelling down the on-ramp makes merging onto the motorway easier and causes less disruption to motorway traffic flow.

View a video of how ramp signals work.

ramp-metering-diagram.jpgHow Ramp Signals Work

When lights are red:

Stop and wait for green signal.

When lights are green:

One vehicle in each lane goes. The next vehicle in each lane moves forward and waits for their turn. Ramp signals run on a quick cycle, only a few seconds between green lights.

Or this

 

Hey! you come back already!!! [grouphug][laugh]

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Took this from nearby Piha beach in NZ..

 

Thats a clever sign, it says in the event of a tusnami

 

just climb up the pole.

I like this better ...

 

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What does the sign mean?

 

No sheep shagging allowed here?

 

Must be an Aussie sign that.

 

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The reason we don't know how to merge in Sg

 

is because people don't know how to give and take.

 

To many people only know how to take and take

 

and thats why the merging lanes always gets jammed up.

 

:D

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The reason we don't know how to merge in Sg

 

is because people don't know how to give and take.

 

To many people only know how to take and take

 

and thats why the merging lanes always gets jammed up.

 

:D

To many people is pay and pay, where got take and take?

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The reason we don't know how to merge in Sg

 

is because people don't know how to give and take.

 

To many people only know how to take and take

 

and thats why the merging lanes always gets jammed up.

 

:D

 

That's true.....and I wonder why.

 

Is it because since young, most parents teach kids that they must never lose to others in everything they do?

 

 

 

 

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given their traffic density, they are so excited to see another car pass by that they horn to say hello...

 

try to horning in Singapore for no reason... tio hoot [laugh][laugh] [laugh]

 

 

 

 

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I was in NZ for 4 years. It is seriously the best place to drive and everyone from the hiongster driver (in souped up rice cars, or stock Holden V8s) to the granny who only drives from home to the supermarket has very pleasant driving manners that will put many Singaporean drivers to shame.

 

- You will rarely hear a horn unless its to warn of imminent grave danger, or at most it will be a light tap of the horn by someone offering to give you way!

 

- When you signal, everyone automatically slows down to let you through, rather than speed up to block you as they do in Singapore.

 

- People only high beam to warn you about a possible cop car up ahead; to indicate that they will give you way to pass, or to highlight to you something - e.g. one of your brake lights is spoilt etc.

 

- Nobody rushes into a merging lane to block someone else. They just go one by one.

 

- This is one of the best traffic rules that encourage a positive, giving mindset to drivers: When you are on a two-way road and you're looking to turn into a smaller/side road, the car on the side of that road actually must stop to give you way before turning in himself.

 

- Every kiwi driver signals and actually knows how to use a roundabout, and not cut across a few lanes at once.

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I was in NZ for 4 years. It is seriously the best place to drive and everyone from the hiongster driver (in souped up rice cars, or stock Holden V8s) to the granny who only drives from home to the supermarket has very pleasant driving manners that will put many Singaporean drivers to shame.

 

- You will rarely hear a horn unless its to warn of imminent grave danger, or at most it will be a light tap of the horn by someone offering to give you way!

 

- When you signal, everyone automatically slows down to let you through, rather than speed up to block you as they do in Singapore.

 

- People only high beam to warn you about a possible cop car up ahead; to indicate that they will give you way to pass, or to highlight to you something - e.g. one of your brake lights is spoilt etc.

 

- Nobody rushes into a merging lane to block someone else. They just go one by one.

 

- This is one of the best traffic rules that encourage a positive, giving mindset to drivers: When you are on a two-way road and you're looking to turn into a smaller/side road, the car on the side of that road actually must stop to give you way before turning in himself.

 

- Every kiwi driver signals and actually knows how to use a roundabout, and not cut across a few lanes at once.

 

Perhaps it is the car density on our roads that causes the impatience or kiasu mentality among Spore drivers.

 

When car density is sparse, people normally have a more relax drive and hence better manners.

 

I think Spore will achieve good driving manners when our COE is 200k and our car quota is cut by half of what we have now.

 

 

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Perhaps it is the car density on our roads that causes the impatience or kiasu mentality among Spore drivers.

 

When car density is sparse, people normally have a more relax drive and hence better manners.

 

I think Spore will achieve good driving manners when our COE is 200k and our car quota is cut by half of what we have now.

 

 

 

Honestly, I wouldn't attribute it to car density.

I lived in Auckland, which is the biggest city in NZ. Despite being a city, roads are not all that wide, especially those that lead out to the suburbs. There are many cars on the road in Auckland as well - owing to low costs of ownership and taxes, and the advent of cheap Japanese (and Singaporean) imports. The motorways as well as the main and smaller roads to the suburbs do get pretty jammed during peak hours as well, but despite all that, driving is still a very pleasant experience, and people are just generally patient, friendly and easy-going.

 

Personally, I think the kiasu mentality and attitude is the primary reason for bad manners in Singapore. It does not just extend to driving but other aspects of life as well. It's like people always assume that they deserve to be ahead/not lose out because they paid so much for, or have the ability to afford a car, pay high road tax and COE or secured any other material achievement that gives them this assumed 'air-of-superiority' because they 'have arrived'. Life in general is pretty much too competitive and that has unfortunately shaped the mindset. Contrast that to NZ where people believe that it's cool to just be average and happy and therein lies the difference.

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Perhaps it is the car density on our roads that causes the impatience or kiasu mentality among Spore drivers.

 

When car density is sparse, people normally have a more relax drive and hence better manners.

 

I think Spore will achieve good driving manners when our COE is 200k and our car quota is cut by half of what we have now.

 

 

 

I beg to differ.

 

If COE 200k, all the more people will think that since I paid so much , I have the right of way. Why should my 200k car COE give way to a 50k goods vehicle COE . Motorbikes with 5k COE , get out of my way . [laugh]

 

High density roads does not necessarily translate into an impatient or kiasu mentality. I drive in KL every week and am of the opinion that drivers there tend to give way more readily than in Singapore ; whether you are changing lanes, joining the main road or entering a roundabout.

 

I think the high costs of owning a car here creates a mentality of superiority " hey, I can afford a car you know" which may have resulted in more selfish driving manners. The more expensive a car gets, the worse it becomes.

 

 

 

"I got car, you got what ?" [rolleyes]

 

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