Tuesday, April 27, 2010

useless things i learned in kazakhstan 8

when traffic lights (at least some of them that i've seen here in taraz) are red, they blink about two second before they turn green.

there seems to be no purpose for this about-to-turn green blink except to encourage cars waiting for green to jump the light and speed into the intersection when their light is still red and the light in the other direction is just turning to yellow.