2021

TQ0058 : Traffic lights at the bottom of the High Street

taken 5 years ago, near to Woking, Surrey, England

Traffic lights at the bottom of the High Street
Traffic lights at the bottom of the High Street
The first traffic jam was reported in New York in1913! A year later the police department in Cleveland Ohio installed a red and green traffic control, the first permanent installation in the world.20 In 1917, Detroit police Potts made a major improvement in traffic lights, adding a yellow caution light. The first four-direction light came in 1920. Paris received its first lights in 1922, Berlin in 1924, and London in 1931.The most complicated set of lights is in Chongqing City China and the least needed on Ascension Island.

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TQ0058, 548 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Basher Eyre   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 30 December, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 31 December, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 0049 5862 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:19.0694N 0:33.5652W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 0051 5863
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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