Why an empty intersection keeps you waiting

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You will sit entirely alone at an empty intersection at three in the morning, held hostage by a glowing red bulb that stubbornly refuses to turn green.

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Gas-lit traffic lights were installed outside the British Parliament in London in 1868, decades before the invention of the automobile, primarily to control horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.

Why four-way stops end in awkward waving

When hearses doubled as ambulances

Airship pilots once used their bodies to steer

Tokyo utilizes incredibly sophisticated, automated underground bicycle parking vaults called Eco Cycles to combat the severe lack of available surface space in the crowded metropolis.

Kenya's mobile libraries travel by camel

A bigger world.
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