Still, it did fight hard against the installation of traffic-lights in the capital, Kingstown.
Irbil has a glittering airport, European-styled traffic lights, well-paved roads and highly functional infrastructure.
Transport for London (TfL) is currently trialling eye-level traffic lights for cyclists and "Dutch-style" roundabouts.
Both would have specialised traffic-responsive traffic lights to help improve the flow of traffic.
One road is completely closed after a landslide and another is being controlled with traffic lights - with just one lane open.
Sensors attached to traffic lights, lamp-posts and other city landmarks are seen as key to creating smarter cities.
Later, on GMTV he suggested free school buses, park and ride schemes and the re-phasing of traffic lights were alternative solutions to solve road congestion.
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With help from signals from roadside markers and traffic lights, in-car computers will be able to determine if a car should slam on the brakes, alert the driver to a passing vehicle in the blind spot or slow for a red light up ahead that another driver isn't heeding.
He pointed to a recent move to allow greater use of so-called "Trixi mirrors" - which are fitted to traffic lights to give lorry drivers a better view of cyclists on their left side at road junctions - as evidence of how serious the issue of safety was viewed.
In Dakar, traffic lights are functionally non-existent, and thousands of cars navigate the streets though irregularly placed roundabouts.
The near collision happened on Southmead Road in Filton as the single-decker - travelling at around 25mph - passed through green traffic lights.
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Mr Ferguson also called for greater enforcement against drivers parking on cycle lanes and drivers who stop in the cycle-only area by traffic lights.
Traffic lights are bad enough - they make us stop when we could go, they take our eyes off the road, flouting the most fundamental safety principle but they are only the symptom of a dysfunctional system.
Do not ever provide a service over the web that controls something critical (house lights, surveillance cameras, bank accounts, car lock-out devices, street signs, traffic lights, bank accounts, stock trading accounts, etc.) without having at least rudimentary controls in place.
Not to mention the one-way systems, the traffic lights, the junctions...
But percolating along at 3, 500 rpm in second gear about where you'd be in the cut-and-thrust of commuting traffic the C30 Polestar lights up like a Tommy gun.
Similarly, the origins of the microwave oven (an offshoot of radar), the folding baby buggy (the brainchild of a test-pilot inspired by aircraft landing gear) and traffic lights (one of the first of which exploded outside the Houses of Parliament) are not widely known.
There is only one polling station in the capital, Nuuk - a town of 15, 000 with only two traffic lights.
Cynics reckon that traffic lights were fiddled to increase journey times in the run-up to the charge's introduction, and that they have since been readjusted to make traffic flow more easily.
Their operators will be based in the new hub alongside specialists from TRAFFCOM - the team in charge of the city's traffic lights and traffic cameras, who currently work from separate bases.
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The Mayor of Carmel, Jim Brainard, has become America's evangelist-in-chief on the matter, demolishing 78 sets of traffic lights and replacing them with those round islands so familiar to drivers in the UK. Four more will be finished in the coming months.
For instance, how about having a 911 call trigger a pre-mapped route via GIS so the local rescue squad can respond ASAP with traffic lights synchronized along the way?
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Extending yellow times could also backfire by causing longer queues at lights and more rear-end crashes as motorists are surprised by the stopped traffic, said Ms. Eccles, the transportation-engineering consultant.
As you sit there not moving, watching the traffic lights changing back and forth, this is the perfect time to stop and think - is this a journey you really need to make?
Before the collision, officers believe the pedestrian - who was leaning against a roadside cabinet - may have spoken to a taxi driver in a white vehicle who had stopped at traffic lights.
And that's why the endeavor required a pair of 600-horsepower push-and-pull trucks, along with dozens of workers leading and following to displace and restore countless traffic lights, utility poles and the occasional pesky palm tree to make way for the shiny red caravan.
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If you are following another vehicle at night, using their lights to see ahead can cause you to drive dangerously close - keep well back from other traffic.
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