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[[File:Traffic lights.jpg|thumb|A set of traffic lights. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')]] | [[File:Traffic lights.jpg|thumb|A set of traffic lights. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song]]'')]] | ||
'''Traffic lights''' were signalling devices positioned on [[road]]s to control competing flows of [[road traffic|traffic]]. [[Car]]s were meant to stop at [[red]] [[light]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') while [[green]] lights allowed vehicles to proceed without stopping. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') | '''Traffic lights''' were signalling devices positioned on [[road]]s to control competing flows of [[road traffic|traffic]]. [[Car]]s were meant to stop at [[red]] [[light]]s to allow others to cross, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') while [[green]] lights allowed vehicles to proceed without stopping. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') | ||
The [[Torchwood SUV]] could change traffic lights so that they were green before the vehicle reached them, allowing [[Torchwood Three]] to get to their destination sooner. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') | The [[Torchwood SUV]] could change traffic lights so that they were green before the vehicle reached them, allowing [[Torchwood Three]] to get to their destination sooner. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Slow Decay (novel)|Slow Decay]]'') | ||
Revision as of 06:03, 4 February 2019
Traffic lights were signalling devices positioned on roads to control competing flows of traffic. Cars were meant to stop at red lights to allow others to cross, (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) while green lights allowed vehicles to proceed without stopping. (PROSE: Slow Decay)
The Torchwood SUV could change traffic lights so that they were green before the vehicle reached them, allowing Torchwood Three to get to their destination sooner. (PROSE: Slow Decay)
A Universal Remote Control could turn early 21st century traffic lights red. (AUDIO: Asylum)
In River Song's World, where all of Earth's history occurred at once, a Roman soldier on a horse was seen waiting for traffic lights to turn green as cars went by. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)
On arriving in Pete's World, Mickey Smith, who was acquainted with the idea of parallel universes that diverge from the normal world, suggested blue traffic lights as a difference. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
