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Horizon Signal
    A Journal for Today’s Construction Professional

Volume #1 Issue #3    

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Bridge Repairs in Canada


Challenge
Continuous traffic control during four-month-long bridge repair project.


Where
A heavily-traveled urban bridge in Wainfleet, Ontario.


When
Horizon Signal Technologies SQ3TS system units towed to the job site and installed on September 3, 2002. The system remained in place through the duration.


Background
Dean Schwemler of Hertz Equipment Rentals works with contractor, Hard Rock Paving, to confirm the approval of the Traffic Office of the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) for the use of the Horizon Signal SQ3TS traffic control system. The MTO certified that the system met all of the "Interim Basic Requirements for Portable Traffic Control Systems."


Solution
The Horizon Signal SQ3TS controlled traffic continuously and flawlessly throughout the duration of the project.

Horizon SQ3TS
Horizon SQ3TS arrives on the bridge job site
in Wainfleet on September 3, 2002. Construction
workers from Hard Rock Paving prepare to position
the signals at each end of the bridge.

Horizon SQ3TS
The units are placed behind jersey barriers, aimed
toward oncoming traffic and leveled. Since both units
are on the same side of the roadway the signal headsfor unit two were reversed to face oncoming traffic. Sensors and a four-foot extension arm were added to the repeater light to position this signal over the lane of traffic.

Mounting heights of the repeater lights were checked by MTO personnel.
Mounting heights of the repeater lights were
checked by MTO personnel. Repeater lights
set at a height of five meters, primary
signal set at 2.75 meters; and the two heads
separated by a minimum of three meters.

Two signal heads per unit mounted both overhead at the side of the roadway
Two signal heads per unit, mounted both overhead
and at the side of the roadway, offer bright 12-inch
LED lights that make this portable traffic control
signal very visible and effective.

   
Dean Schwemler of Hertz Equipment Rentals
Dean Schwemler of Hertz Equipment Rentals
works with Sherry Marr, contract coordinator of
Hard Rock Paving, to program the signal control
system based on the site plan design approved
by the MTO Traffic Office: green 22 seconds;
yellow 5 seconds; clear time 11 seconds.
Horizon SQ3TS
The SQ3TS traffic control system provides automaticsynchronized timing of all signals; automatic recording of last 3,000 signal functions;
five easily-programmed time splits; automatic
calculation of signal times; and complete
self-diagnostic capability. It performed
flawlessly for the duration of the project.

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