Forum - View topicquestion about Traffic Signals
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v1cious
 Posts: 6241 Location: Houston, TX |
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anyone know what that song is that you always hear at traffic signals? what's it for exactly?
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Arkard
 Posts: 677 Location: Poland |
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My guess would be its for the blind people so they know when to cross the street.
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Zalis116
Moderator
 Posts: 6903 Location: Kazune City |
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I don't know if it's always the same song, but from watching the extras in The Animatrix, the melodies played are probably based on old Japanese folk songs.
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DaZ616
 Posts: 327 Location: Sydney, Australia |
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Maybe its free music played during people wait at traffic lights,
so they wont become bored while waiting for the traffics lights to change to cross the street? 
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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It's definitely for those who are blind. One of the traffic lights where I live will do that, if you hold down the walk button for about ten seconds.
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abunai
Old Regular
 Posts: 5463 Location: 露命 |
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Why, it's just the Traffic Light Song.
It's a charming idea, and I'd like to see it used in the West, instead of the incessant and dull beeping noises our crossing signals make (at least, here in Denmark, they do). Of course, we'd need to use a culturally appropriate melody of our own. 
Mind you, if I lived next to a traffic crossing, I think it would drive me (even further) round the bend, having to listen to it all the time. - abunai |
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fighterholic
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I`ve heard about three different varieties of the street crossing song, and yes they`re for blind people when they cross the street. They`re normally between 10 and 20 seconds long.
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Arkard
Posts: 677 Location: Poland |
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The funniest thing. 3 years back I stayed in a fairly urban part of Yokohama and have never heard this sound. So I was really confused when some people back home (anime fans) asked me about the "traffic light song"
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jaybug39
 Posts: 552 Location: Oregon, Is it FOOTBALL yet? |
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Yeah, we had a traffic lite song about 23 years ago. I can't drive 55.
Actually I was thinking it was like the notes to N-B-C. But boy was I off. Is this new, I never heard any traffic lights song, music nada, when I was in Yokusuka in 1986. Say Abunai, I know it's the wrong country, but how about Peter and the Wolf music for traffic lights? |
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fighterholic
Posts: 9193 |
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Well I know that back in 1996 they had them because that`s when I got to Japan. So at least 10 years.
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