Green above Red

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Green above Red

 

Irish traffic sign?

 

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=35612&pid=283337&st=0entry283337

 

Whereas normally in a traffic light the red would on top.

http://www.yourpieceofmarin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/traffic_lights.jpg

 

There is a majority Irish neighborhood in Syracuse , NY that has become a touristic curiosity. Where the green is on top and the red at the bottom in the traffic sign. Makes one wonder how the traffic lights in Ireland are.

 

http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/leprechaun.jpg

 

How about we insist that in Glendale the “tsirani/apricot” color be on top? :ap:

Unlike the Soviets who consider the color red as a symbol of progress, the Irish despise it and insist the color green is.

Green above red; Irish power?

http://rlv.zcache.com/irish_traffic_light_t_shirt-p235038576372087923ybjj_125.jpg

 

http://rlv.zcache.com/irish_traffic_light_t_shirt-p235038576372087923ybjj_125.jpg

 

Tipperary Hill's green-over-red traffic light -Tipperary Hill, sometimes known as Tipp Hill, is a district in the city of Syracuse, New York, largely settled by immigrants from Ireland, especially from County Tipperary. It makes up half of Syracuse's Far Westside neighborhood.

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Green over red-When the city first installed traffic signal lights in 1925, manufactured by Crouse-Hinds Company of Syracuse, they placed one at a major intersection on Tipperary Hill at the corner of Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue. This was the main business district of the area.

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The "Green-on-Top" or "Red-on-Bottom" Traffic Light -Local Irish youths, incensed that anyone would dare to put the "British" red above the "Irish" green, threw stones at the signal and broke the red light. The city replaced it, but the Irish soon threw more stones and broke the replacement

Eventually the city gave up and installed this “green above red” sign.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tipperary_Hill_-_greenoverred_Syracuse%2C_New_York.jpg