GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Although there has been an increased development and construction of roundabouts in Michigan, one of the oldest ways of traffic control celebrates an anniversary on Monday, Aug. 5.
It has been 110 years since the first traffic signal was believed to have been put up at the intersection of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland on August 5th, 1914, with a Detroit police officer, William Potts, inventing the now-standard red-yellow-green system in 1920.
Alex Doty is with the Ottawa County Road Commission.
A lot goes into where a traffic signal is located and how it will control motorists through a busy junction.
Ashville, Ohio claims to have the world’s oldest traffic light in existence at it’s Ohio Small Town Museum, serving 50 years since it’s installation in 1932 before it was retired due to complaints by color-blind motorists who couldn’t distinguish a red light from a green light.
For more on the history of International Traffic Light Day, which is not the brainchild of any particular organization, click here from Checkiday.com.
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