{"id":625,"date":"2010-06-07T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2010-06-07T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:17:02","slug":"traffic-drums-whats-on-the-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/traffic-drums-whats-on-the-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Drums &#8211; what&#8217;s on the side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wapdrum.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[625]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-626\" title=\"traffic drums\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsafetyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wapdrum.jpg\" alt=\"traffic drums, traffic drum, traffic barrels, traffic barrel, channelizer, channelizers, traffic channelizer, traffic channelizers\" width=\"62\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wapdrum.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wapdrum-129x300.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 62px) 100vw, 62px\" \/><\/a>A lot of people do not know what is on the side or the top of <a title=\"traffic drums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/c-6-channelizers-drums.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">traffic drums<\/a>.\u00a0 They know what traffic drums are, the orange traffic barrels they always see on the side of the road.\u00a0 What they don&#8217;t know is that the lights on top of them are called barricade lights and they are typically wrapped with four 6&#8243; bands, two orange and two white.<\/p>\n<p>This reflective sheeting makes the traffic drums easier to be seen during the night so people know that construction is coming up.\u00a0 The lights also help with this, because they are typically blinking during the night and have a photocell in them so that they only turn on during the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people do not know what is on the side or the top of traffic drums.\u00a0 They know what traffic drums are, the orange traffic barrels they always see on the side of the road.\u00a0 What they don&#8217;t know is that the lights on top of them are called barricade lights and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,18,94,56,70,5,98,97],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-safety","tag-channelizer","tag-channelizers","tag-traffic-barrel","tag-traffic-barrels","tag-traffic-channelizer","tag-traffic-channelizers","tag-traffic-drum","tag-traffic-drums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trans-supply.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}