Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsstat.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!laura
From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Blinking Green Traffic Light
Message-ID: <859@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Aug-83 04:56:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsstat.859
Posted: Sat Aug 13 04:56:46 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Aug-83 06:09:55 EDT
References: <278@dciem.UUCP>, <406@ihuxm.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada
Lines: 19

In Toronto, blinking red lights in conection with a stop sign mean
that there has been a fatality at that interesection caused when someone
went through the stop sign.

I took a driving course where we were told that a blinking yellow
traffic light meant - slow down, proceed with caution, but you dont
have to stop and a flasshing red light  meant, stop, go when it is
safe, and remember that the guy in the other street has a flashing
red light as well. Of course, the YAHOO who taught this course said
that jamming your breaks, locking them, was the best way to deal
with skids on ice (WRONG WRONG WRONG) so this information cannot
be said to come from a totally reliable source.

Flashing green means that you can go, and that all the traffic in
the other directions is seeing a red light. Left-hand turners are
the primary beneficiaries.

Laura Creighton
utcsstat!laura