I photographed this pictured crosswalk sensor box after realizing the purpose of the affixed metal bar while waiting at a particularly skewed crossing in Aarhus.
I want to thank those involved for making such guides for the visually impaired standard.
Such a piece of metal could easily be overlooked or dismissed as a flourish.
I’m curious, is the whole of the sensor box fruit of some piece of legislation? Did the guide bar come after? I’m curious about the actual history of this stuff.
Tak
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It is part of legislation.
https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2021/2510
Paragraph 266 states that the bar has to be on all crosswalks where there is a sound device, and 267-270 legislates how the bar has to look and where it has to go.
I have no idea how old it is, but you can go back in the legislation and see when it first appeared under the name “Retningspil”
If you have pliers about your person, you can give ’em a good twist and hilarity is bound to ensue.
But seriously, that would be the design flaw. Oftentimes they’re out of alignment.
I never knew what that was for… I thought it was for unscrewing the top or something, it always bothered me that it was at an angle.