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Traffic lights, corner of Market and Kent Streets

Code of Signals for the Colony of New South Wales 1834

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Signal systems

Traffic lights, corner of Market and Kent Streets

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The first traffic lights installed in Sydney. Vehicle-actuated, the two phase system was put into operation at 11am on Friday 13 October 1933. Explanations of the lights and signals were published widely, but many drivers virtually ignored them at the time. In 1935 it was decided to introduce further signals at various points in the city and some arterial roads.

Code of Signals for the Colony of New South Wales 1834

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By

William Wilson

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a7225190 / DL PXX 84, 190]

(Dixson Library)