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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
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Subject: Re: Flashing Green Light
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 11:26:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 11:26:25 1986
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>> [The original query was, What is a Flashing Green Light?]
>  color is invariably green, hence the name "Flashing
> 	Green Light". 
> 	Hope that cleared things up.
> 					Dale.
> 
Clear as mud, since you missed the point of the original question.  For those
of you fortunate enough not to drive in Massachusetts, Flashing Green Lights
are often used here to mark one of four things:  (1) a crosswalk (which also
introduces the phenomenon of the Red-And-Yellow-Steady-Light, which means:
Pedestrians occupying the crosswalk.  Accelerate and Aim.), (2) an
intersection that might get a flashing yellow (and opposing flashing red) but
is so infrequently used by the cross traffic that you need not worry about
them, (3) a place where the local town was too cheap to figure out the traffic
pattern so they pretend (2) is accurate, or (4) complete, total, irreversible
brain damage on the part of the traffic control official.  Case number 4 is
the usual case, and explains a great deal about Boston Area road construction.

I have not seen flashing green lights anywhere else in the country (having
lived in the mid-, far-, Pacific North-, and south- west regions of the
country).

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