Red and green traffic lights have been around since the 1800s, when British traffic officers used to rotate gas lamps that burned red and green to control the movement of mostly horse-drawn vehicles.

At first glance, traffic lights are stunningly simple: green means go, red means stop, and yellow means it’s about to turn red. But like cars, phones, and just about everything else on this planet, ...

ASSOCIATION STUDY. AND IF YOU DON’T OBEY THE CROSSWALK, YOU’LL GET A TICKET. ALBUQUERQUE IS ADDING NEW TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO MAKE CROSSING THE STREET SAFER. BUT THE SIGNALS HAVE DIFFERENT RULES THAN ...

Your average driver might like to bemoan them, but traffic lights play an integral part in not only controlling traffic patterns in urban and suburban areas, but also helping to keep drivers and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Nashville Department of Transportation (NDOT) is rolling out the city’s first ever “Smart Signal” traffic lights at 36 intersections along Lebanon Pike. The new ...

Some things are so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget they're designed for a reason. With more than 300,000 traffic lights set up across the United States, it's easy to take how they look for granted ...

There's a new pedestrian crossing signal in town. Rather than relying on long-standing laws requiring motorists to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, the Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon uses yellow and red ...