Tipperary Hill "Green On Top" Traffic Light, Syracuse NY: 10-4-09

"When the city first started to install traffic signal lights in the 1920s they put one at a major intersection on Tipperary Hill, on the corner of Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue. Some Irish youths, incensed that anyone would dare to put the "British" red above the "Irish" green, broke the light. The city replaced it but the Irish broke the replacement. After a few rounds of this the city decided that if they wanted a light at that intersection, they had better put the signal up inverted, and so they did."

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[denelson83]

@ECDT1089 Looks like it's just to indicate the status of left turns.

[ECDT1089]

@denelson83 Hillside ave and 164th St

[denelson83]

@ECDT1089 Can you give me the intersection?

[ECDT1089]

@denelson83 Nope there is one queens , ny

[hbowman108]

It's a plot to kill color-blind people!!!

[denelson83]

@NASCARRELIC Actually the only one in the world.