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From: cjsgro@watdragon.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Flashing Green Light
Message-ID: <350@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 23:39:46 EST
Article-I.D.: watdrago.350
Posted: Mon Feb 10 23:39:46 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 06:03:09 EST
References: <261@galbp.UUCP> <38600001@faust.UUCP> <7780@watrose.UUCP> <249@imagen.UUCP> <695@harvard.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjsgro@watdragon.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <695@harvard.UUCP> lo@harvard.UUCP (Bert S.F. Lo) writes:
>
>> > > How about the jerk in front of you who insists that he cannot go through
>> > > a flashing green light because he is NOT making a left hand turn, so he
>> > > just sits there blocking traffic.
>
>
>> What is a
>> flashing green light (and where)?  I don't believe I've ever seen one
>> in California or Hawaii.
>
>If the second poster had tried to understand the first posting and read the
>first posting's origin, he could have figured out that a flashing green light
>is a left turn signal in Canada.
>

Wrongo!  A flashing green light is used to indicate that *all* traffic
that has it can proceed.  Thus, it can not only be used to make left
turns easier, it also aids traffic flow for those who are going straight
or turning right.  This would be most useful when there is a *lot* of
traffic that has to turn left coming from one direction only (e.g. a 
one way street, a 'T', or rush hour). Obviously, when one side has
a flashing green, the other side has a red light.  If the traffic 
warrants allowing easy left turns from both directions, then a 'left
turn arrow' is used.  

All of the above applies to the province of Ontario.
Your mileage may vary.


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