r/casualEurope • u/trivigante • 4d ago

In Fulda, Germany, pedestrian crossings are themed after the famous abbey

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u/AndryCake 4d ago

What's the third light for?

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u/wurstbowle 3d ago

In this particular case, it's a speaker for audio cues for blind people.

For some pedestrian traffic lights, the uppermost indicates, if you have pressed the request button.

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u/Creepy_Assistant7517 1d ago edited 1d ago

Symmetry. No joke. Its apparently cheaper to produce one common housing for traffic lights, but for pedestrians you then (usually) have two reds that light simultaneously at the top and one green at the bottom. In haddeby (famous viking town) they have vikings

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u/Putrid-Presentation5 3d ago

The red light looks like they're trying to hold a devil back. No jaywalking, Satan!

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u/trivigante 3d ago

It's exactly this, stop infidels.

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u/Rooilia 3d ago

In Göttingen are lights of all kind of couples holding hands. (Not only hetero)

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u/lumberjacka114 3d ago

Cute!! Over in Amersfoort the Netherlands they have Sophie, a lady walking and stopping instead of the regular pedestrian on the traffic lights

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u/Wise-Management-9601 3d ago

Wish we had lights like this in Cleveland!

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u/Looz-Ashae 3d ago

Wololo

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u/foersom 1d ago

Fulda, is that close to a white salt mountain?

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u/PhantasmagirucalSam 3d ago

I was hoping it was Gandalf's "You shall not pass!" before reading the title and noticing the cross.