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Posted by gbs on Tue Jun 9 02:37:12 2026, in response to Re: Is the subway in NYC really that bad?, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Jun 8 15:25:45 2026. There was a steady red-green aspect The sequence for most of the traffic lights in the city was: steady green (traffic moves) steady green + red (2-3 second warning that the light was about to turn red) steady red (traffic stops) steady green (traffic moves) Most intersections in those days had traffic poles only on two corners, cattycorner. The four heads were fixed in a perpendicular arrangement and couldn't be adjusted to more directly face the traffic:  The pole on one of the two corners had the control box built in:  Occasionally the heads were mounted overhead (where this was often the only signal at the intersection):   or on a utility pole:  Later, modular lights were used, which could be more precisely aimed, and the control boxes were mounted on the poles and not built-in:  Some of the old traffic lights on Park Av north of Grand Central Terminal had the reverse sequence: steady green steady red steady red + green steady green These intersections had only one pole, installed on one of the medians: 
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