Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Nobody likes being stuck at a stoplight, but before there were systems in place to make drivers take turns, the roads were not good. Here are a few of the inventions that helped us (mostly) stop crashing into each other. Plus: why did Syracuse, New York set up an upside-down stoplight, with green on top?  A Brief History of the Stoplight (Smithsonian) There’s No Other Traffic Light In America Like This One In New York (Only In Your State) Go, go, go to our Patreon page and back this show --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message