A set of automatically operated coloured lights, typically red, amber, and green, for controlling traffic at road junctions, pedestrian crossings, and roundabouts.
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The traffic light flicked green and the bus motored off round the corner leaving them to fight it out.
She turned right at the junction even when the traffic light had turned red.
Adding that to our lists could cost us a green light at the first traffic signal.
We hit the trail at the north side of the traffic light at Main Street and Old Mammoth Road.
As this study focuses on urban areas, a bunch could normally mean a cluster of vehicles released from an upstream traffic signal during the green time.
At that moment, the traffic light went green and the girls walked across the street.
Once I even caught myself patiently waiting for the green man at a traffic light before I crossed an empty street.
Even the usual traffic signal at unmanned junctions gives the pedestrian very little time (in some junctions it is less than five seconds) to cross.
The scheme would incorporate a three-arm traffic signal with each arm operating on a shuttle system.
People standing beside him on the sidewalk while they waited for the traffic light to turn green.
Simulating the presence of a large motor vehicle in an inductive loop of a vehicular traffic signal light control system
One traffic signal jammed at the crossroads of Deansgate, Bridge Street and John Dalton Street.
He stared futilely at her figure, unable to reach her as the traffic signal turned green.
Getting stuck at the traffic signal at Silk Board Junction can lead one beyond road rage.
For the third year running a mistle thrush has chosen an amber traffic light in Salford to rear her young.
Had the traffic light been green instead of red, we could have been right in front of him.
Every traffic light, every gas stop turns into a short conversation.
The last time I contacted him was to report the always-red traffic light near Nandan Road.
Well I've waited and waited right through the long hot Summer, waiting for the green to go red, like a traffic light in reverse.
That access road gives him an unimpeded run up to a traffic light about a quarter of a mile away.