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Once the link between the two roads is completed, there will be an additional travel lane in each direction, sidewalks on both sides, and traffic signals.
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Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
Likewise, bicyclists who run red lights and stop signs, make right or left turns from the wrong lane, ride outside their bike lane and ignore bike traffic signals are just asking for trouble.
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Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
In the plan's first year The city will begin implementing bus service enhancements, safety and lighting improvements, and sidewalk and traffic signal upgrades.
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Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Designed by John Peake Knight, a railway manager from Nottingham, the traffic signal was based on the semaphore system common at rail intersections.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1893, in the meaning defined above
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“Traffic signal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traffic%20signal. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
traffic signal
noun
: a signal (as a traffic light) for controlling traffic
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