New research from UMass Amherst suggests more driver awareness is needed about pedestrian hybrid beacons. A pedestrian hybrid beacon is a type of crossing signal that consists of three lights. When a ...

There's a new pedestrian crossing signal in town. Rather than relying on long-standing laws requiring motorists to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, the Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon uses yellow and red ...

Q: What are the rules about crosswalks at intersections with signal lights? Many people think that if they are in a crosswalk and the light is green for the automobile, they can still cross. Please ...

Apr. 19—Five signalized intersections along First Avenue East in Newton will get ADA signals with audible sound and pedestrian countdown heads installed, and a significant portion of the project will ...

Funded by a $170,000 grant from the Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program, the Redmond downtown crosswalk upgrade will convert the crossings at 19 signalized intersections from simple parallel ...

Traffic lights are an integral part of maintaining order among vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians. And while an agreement has been in place since the late 1960s standardizing intersection lights ...

My e-mail box is getting full and I need to catch up on answering readers' transportation and traffic questions. I'd like to talk about a question from Melissa Bowersock on the walk signals at North ...