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| 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 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.

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.
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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
and at the side of the roadway, offer bright 12-inch
LED lights that make this portable traffic control
signal very visible and effective. |
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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. |

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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