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Re: Vintage traffic signals (sidetracked from Tram & Pedestrian Accident Today - 22.12)


David Bennetts <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
38682df2.0@newshost.pcug.org.au">news:38682df2.0@newshost.pcug.org.au...
>
> Snip

>  As for the Geelong lights, I
> can just remember them as a youngster, they were coloured fluro tubes on
> poles mounted in the centre of the intersection.  My father drove through
> three or four intersections with them before he realised that they were
> supposed to be traffic lights, having seen nothing like them before or
> since.
>
I heard this used to happen when traffic lights were first installed in
country towns!


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Rgds

Ron BESDANSKY