>>4498230I don't know an exact date. As a kid, I've always thought that Traffic Lights were like humans with emotions. I thought of each signal phase as an emotion. Whenever I would talk to my English & Art teachers about it, they would always say that inanimate objects have no emotion. Over time, as GE's & old Fortrans get replaced with new Econolite & Fortran signals, to me it feels like a bunch of nice old people passing away. There are a few remaining incandescent bulbs remaining, but they're far away in some old towns. I plan to take a week off work, and travel around my province & take pictures of some old traffic signals. People might not care, and that's fine. I just feel like we're losing a tremendous amount of history & stories people had at those intersections with those old lights.
