Why is there a tiny pink gentle on the visitors sign? A digital camera?

Q. Hey Honk: I observed this small pink gentle down low on a visitors sign at Crown Valley and Marguerite parkways in Mission Viejo. Looks like a digital camera. What’s it for?

– Paul DeSimone, Mission Viejo

A. Called an “enforcement gentle,” it helps the deputies who patrol your city nab red-light runners.

“It’s a instrument we give the (Orange County) Sheriff’s Department to assist them to do their jobs,” mentioned Brett Canedy, a transportation analyst for the town.

When the sign lights up pink, so does the little gentle decrease on what known as the sign head, what the lights are mounted on.

The enforcement gentle makes it simpler for a deputy to see that the sunshine is pink.

Traffic lights usually have visors circling them, directed on the affected motorists. With this little gentle, the deputy’s view isn’t blocked off if she or he is stationed a bit out of the road of sight of the sign.

Maybe the bike deputy is off to the facet, in a driveway or a bus cutout and never within the driver’s lane.

Mission Viejo has enforcement lights at 5 intersections. Honk had by no means seen one earlier than, however Canedy says another Southern California communities deploy them as nicely.