Britain's first set of traffic lights was installed, December 1868. Using technoogy borrowed from the railways, they worked on gas, and later exploded, killing a policeman. The idea of lights to control road vehicles was only revived in 1926, see
Appendix One, regulations, at
http://fooddeserts.org/images/000RoadTraffic.htm
Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Visiting Fellow - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity
Department of Politics and Public Policy
De Montfort University
LE1 9BH
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