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by minaguib 977 days ago
This was yanked almost immediately after it was deployed and announced:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9785851/quebec-transport-ministry...

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> This was yanked almost immediately after it was deployed and announced:

And I think that was the right call. These were just "slow down" lights styled to look like stop lights, but a stop light-looking thing must in all cases actually be an enforced stop light. Otherwise, you're just training drivers to run red lights once they figure it out.

And apparently got a name change.

Focus groups showed that drivers are more responsive to traffic lights named Earl, than Fred. Probably.