Signal 2016A: Larkfield Road at Clay Pitts Road

Signal 2016A is the traffic signal operating at the four way intersection of Larkfield Road at Clay Pitts Road in East Northport.

History
2016A dates back as early as the 1970s, it is one of the first traffic signals built in Huntington and was built before each traffic signal has a number.

The signal possibly went through a couple of rebuilds before its most recent in the early 2010's as part of the Larkfield Road project, where all town signals were upgraded at once.

Previous Constructions
The only other known construction of 2016A was the incad span wire construction before the current design. The older signal lacked PEDs but still was a complete 8 phase cycle with permissive left turns in all directions. Its design was very similar to the historic 2020A design at New York Avenue and Wolf Hill Road in Melville, with a four way head with five lights in each direction (the only other such head known besides at 2020A).

Current Constuction
The current signal is a standard mast arm LED signal utilizing a 2070E controller with PED head crosswalks on all sides except the north. Unlike other signals on Larkfield Road, the cabinet is concrete mounted, this is because the former cabinet at the signal was also mounted as such. 2016A is the only town signal on Larkfield with four left turn signals and is one of the only two town owned signals to have fully ADA compliant voice pedestrian pushbuttons, the other one is at 5th Avenue (2009A) to the north.

2016A originally used Traficon Video detection much like every other signal reconstructed on Larkfield Road at the same time. However, due to the excessive amount of wires in the mast arms, the camera cards in the cabinet frequently were fried due to wire rubbing. As a result, all cameras have been replaced with a singular 360 gridsmart camera, all other town signals on Larkfield Road would also also receive a gridsmart camera that didn't have one already, in order to prevent this problem in the future.

The signal is also equipped with 3 wireless radios communicating with signals to the north, south and east.