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traffic signal

NOUN
red light


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In Wilmington, near the busiest port in the country, crumbling sidewalks would be fixed and a new traffic signal and high-visibility crosswalks would be added.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

By 1930, Nelson wrote, all major American cities and many smaller ones had at least one electrical traffic signal.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

The U-M system, called a probabilistic time-space diagram, allows for a smaller percentage of connected vehicle data to do the same workload as sensors at an adaptive traffic signal.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

On a smaller scale, the city of South Gate is nearing completion on its traffic signal synchronization project on Tweedy Boulevard, a straight roadway, that started in the spring.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

That might have been that if only, some days afterward, the thieves hadn’t ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote