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.

US Route 20 starts in Boston, Massachusetts, and ends in Newport, Oregon. It's America's longest highway, measuring approximately 3,365 miles. However, nobody needs to drive for almost four days to ...

The traffic light in Syracuse, N.Y.'s Tipperary Hill has the green light on top. Irish residents thought red on top ...

"Green Light identified opportunities where we previously had no visibility, and directed engineers to where there were potential benefits in changing signal timings," says David Atkin, Analysis and ...

Driving in a different country presents a unique set of hazards, with one of the biggest being that there will inevitably be some different road traffic laws that you'll need to come to grips with.

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 ...

SCRANTON – In the works for years, plans to upgrade traffic light signals at three busy intersections finally have a green light to move ahead. In recent years, the state Department of ...

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Google’s Project Green Light has been implemented at a couple intersections along 15th Avenue Northwest in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Next time you avoid sitting ...