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Before Traffic Lights, circa 1914

FOR MANY YEARS, TORONTO POLICE officers regulated the flow of traffic at major intersections by using a hand-turned “STOP-GO” semaphore like the one shown here at King and Yonge around 1914. They were rolled out (the base was circular) into the intersections at rush hour. These officers were in constant danger of being run over, and they no doubt welcomed the arrival of Toronto’s first electric traffic lights at Bloor and Yonge on Saturday, August 8, 1925.