Ich habe gerade zum ersten Mal einen 9 -Tage -Urlaub in Zypern fertiggestellt und ich sehe, dass viele Leute über die Ähnlichkeiten mit Großbritannien wie Plug -Typen und Links fahren, aber es gibt noch etwas, was mir bemerkt hat, dass andere zu vermissen scheinen. Die Verkehrsbeleuchtung und Fußgängerübergänge sind genau das gleiche wie das britische Design mit den weißen Grenzen und gelben Wartezeiten. (Zumindest in Paphos, sowieso konnte ich nicht für die andere Seite der Insel sprechen.) Ich verstehe, dass das Fahren auf der linken Seite und anschließt, weil sie bereits vorhanden waren, als Zypern Unabhängigkeit erlangte, aber diese nicht. Warum verwenden Zypern sie? Sogar Malta, das gegenüber den Briten (und sogar, um sich in Großbritannien anzuschließen) zu sein, wurde diese von diesen beseitigt und die Standard -EU -Designs in der Zeit verwendet, doch Zypern hat in letzter Zeit sogar neue, weil sie aussehen. Und warum glaubst du, wird diese Ähnlichkeit oft vermisst? Vielleicht ist es nicht üblich, über Ampeldesigns zu suchen und nachzudenken, aber das britische Design ist möglicherweise das unverwechselbarste und ich habe diese außerhalb Großbritanniens oder Übersee -Territorien noch nie gesehen.
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Von Fadingmarrow981
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I have noticed that too. The design and supplies seem to come from the United Kingdom. However, traffic lights in cities such as Larnaca and Limassol have been changed. But road markings are in line with UK standards. Perhaps for compatibility reasons.
I don’t know the exact answer, but Cyprus uses UK standards for tons and tons of things, I assume due to preceding technology being based in British standards and it being too hard to get away from.
Many Cypriot engineers are educated in the UK and this is likely a factor in the extended and widespread use of British standards. Although it’s common for many students to go to Athens for their studies, every engineer that I know in Cyprus went to the UK. So I’ve always just assumed for anything technical, it’s just inherited from the UK 🤷🏻♂️
The traffic code and signs etc are essentially copy paste. I assume it’s because it’s easier.
Millenium Point towards the ring road
[https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4844974,-1.8865155,3a,90y,55.62h,99.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s3YRWaZB7nTixwXQdYRl0hg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-9.075389924578488%26panoid%3D3YRWaZB7nTixwXQdYRl0hg%26yaw%3D55.615710181703264!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4844974,-1.8865155,3a,90y,55.62h,99.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s3YRWaZB7nTixwXQdYRl0hg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-9.075389924578488%26panoid%3D3YRWaZB7nTixwXQdYRl0hg%26yaw%3D55.615710181703264!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en-GB&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)
Hopefully, as years pass with Cyprus within the Eu and the Uk out, these similarities will become fewer every year
They have changed, standards are changing all the time. They were a colony and as such have a number of colonial era laws that have not been changed or adjusted to deviate from that period.
Specifically with driving you will notice that they have changed, the yellow plates have changed to be white back and front and stamped rather than plastic plates.
Also if you drove on the motorways you will notice they resemble French motorways with the green exit bollard at the junction, and all the new motorways have the Green signs for a motorway not a Blue one.
https://preview.redd.it/4eloks4pg1gf1.png?width=732&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb5d0632bf07f64215f548d5d95bd6221cab64bd
Wasn’t Cyprus controlled by the UK at some point? Same with Malta… If it’s so, it’s not strange Cyprus sometimes looks like the UK
I mean…. Our whole constitution was copy pasted
I don’t know the reason, but I personally like these traffic lights. Unfortunately, recently they replaced 10s (if not 100s) of old traffic lights islandwise with new ones that are deviating from the UK ones. The lights are an upgrade (more bright and better in the bright days of Cyprus) however the buttons are a huge downgrade. They are flimsy, the contactless function barely works and the button is hidden.
Good observation! Most of the old traffic lights (let’s say 2010 and back) are pretty much copy and paste of the UK ones, from the lights box to the button box. Only in recent years have we begun changing them. It all begun with the smart urban traffic control system in Limassol and Larnaca at certain points (the smaller, LED, greyish traffic lights that also come with smart pelican crossings that include touchless boxes, timers and accessibility settings) and then a change for the standard – non-smart traffic control – ones:
Those still use the UK white-bordered black box traffic light, even though it’s now significantly smaller and the bulbs are LED! These are also accessible, and have timers at pelican crossings, but the button box looks a little different from the smart traffic control one, or the old UK one. I’d say it’s more like the standard across the EU. I attach the new standard non-smart traffic control one below.
https://preview.redd.it/80yqkx1p32gf1.jpeg?width=1572&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18583665a11b8ed3886adbd2a0f244021fabc242