The Story Behind Syracuse’s Upside-Down Traffic Light

Annotation by Deane Barker • •
https://gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-syracuses-upside-down-traffic-light-1545301615
Narrative

In the 1920s, people kept smashing a traffic light in an Irish neighborhood because they objected to green being the bottom color. As a result, it is now the only “upside-down traffic light” in America.

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