Starting from May next year, Ukraine will change the standards for traffic lights on roads. First Deputy Head of the patrol Police Department Alexey Beloshitsky said that the new standards do not provide for serious differences from the current ones. At the same time, according to European standards, Chevron Arrows will appear at traffic lights, and the green color of the traffic light will become more saturated, reports UNN.
Details
The order of the state enterprise "Ukrainian research and Training Center for standardization, certification and quality problems" provides for the approval of a new standard for traffic lights on roads, which will replace the old one from May 1, 2025.
Biloshitsky said that the new version of DSTU 4092:2024 does not provide for fundamentally serious differences in traffic lights, and the new standard was adopted in order to harmonize with European standards.
According to him, the main differences should include:
- the arrows on the traffic light lenses will be Chevron;
- the color of the green traffic light signal will be more saturated, brought to European standards;
- traffic lights for bike paths must have a bicycle icon and a 100 mm lens if they are placed to the right of the road, and a 200 mm lens if the traffic light is placed above the road;
- joint bicycle and pedestrian traffic lights will appear;
- there will be a countdown timer for both pedestrian and transport traffic lights, including bicycle and traffic lights.
He also noted that we are not talking about replacing all the old traffic lights, but only standards for future reconstructions and road construction.
Addition
Today, a number of media outlets stated that in Ukraine, from May 1 next year, there will be no green signal at traffic lights, and it will be replaced with an emerald one.
Recall
Earlier, Beloshitsky statedthat in Kiev there are practically no new interchanges , overpasses and solutions that would relieve tension in traffic. Then it will be even worse if there are no infrastructure solutions, because passenger traffic along with the traffic flow increases every year.