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Can see it’s illuminated but can’t distinguish it from the bottom light (red). One learns the order of the lights… lighted on top? Go. Lighted on bottom? Stop.

Miiko 4y ago
Where do you live to have green light on top? I thought it was an international standard to always have red light on top, and this article claims the only exception exists in Syracuse, NY: https://uncoveringnewyork.com/upside-down-traffic-light-syracuse/ https://uncoveringnewyork.com/upside-down-traffic-light-syra...
- nier 4y ago
  Interesting. The linked article describes how Irish immigrants vandalized traffic lights until the city decided to hang them upside down. The reason for the destruction was that the Irish green was perceived as being below the British red. They erected a statue of an Irish family near the last remaining traffic light that has it’s green lamp on top. The boy of the family sports a slingshot.
- hiddew 4y ago
  Train signals in the Netherlands also have red on the bottom. The reason is in case of snow falling on the light covers, the red light (most important signal, "stop") will never be blocked by snow.
  - Miiko 4y ago
    Hmm... Looks like train signals (usually? always?) have colors in the opposite order indeed. Probably, parent comment did mean driving a train? ;)
omgwtfbyobbq 4y ago
They all look different, but the perception of what colors they are is different. That applies to other colors too. Green looks like white, yellow looks like yellow, and red looks a little closer to orange than red.
- pge 4y ago
  This is an accurate description to me (also color blind) - white (with a slight green tint), yellow, and orange. Apparently, walk signs (with the lit figure of a walking person) are in many areas white rather than green, but I see them as the same color as green traffic lights.
- parpfish 4y ago
  Related: whenever movies decide to make an actor into an alien/witch/monster by giving them green skin, I just see a guy with normal colored skin

Miiko 4y ago

Where do you live to have green light on top? I thought it was an international standard to always have red light on top, and this article claims the only exception exists in Syracuse, NY: https://uncoveringnewyork.com/upside-down-traffic-light-syracuse/ https://uncoveringnewyork.com/upside-down-traffic-light-syra...

nier 4y ago
Interesting. The linked article describes how Irish immigrants vandalized traffic lights until the city decided to hang them upside down. The reason for the destruction was that the Irish green was perceived as being below the British red. They erected a statue of an Irish family near the last remaining traffic light that has it’s green lamp on top. The boy of the family sports a slingshot.
hiddew 4y ago
Train signals in the Netherlands also have red on the bottom. The reason is in case of snow falling on the light covers, the red light (most important signal, "stop") will never be blocked by snow.
- Miiko 4y ago
  Hmm... Looks like train signals (usually? always?) have colors in the opposite order indeed. Probably, parent comment did mean driving a train? ;)

omgwtfbyobbq 4y ago

They all look different, but the perception of what colors they are is different. That applies to other colors too. Green looks like white, yellow looks like yellow, and red looks a little closer to orange than red.

pge 4y ago
This is an accurate description to me (also color blind) - white (with a slight green tint), yellow, and orange. Apparently, walk signs (with the lit figure of a walking person) are in many areas white rather than green, but I see them as the same color as green traffic lights.
parpfish 4y ago
Related: whenever movies decide to make an actor into an alien/witch/monster by giving them green skin, I just see a guy with normal colored skin