{"id":1060,"date":"2006-08-08T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2006-08-09T01:20:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T05:20:15","slug":"toronto-street-signals-introduced-81-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/08\/toronto-street-signals-introduced-81-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto street signals introduced 81 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/yonge-bloor-1923-TA.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>southwest corner, Yonge and Bloor, 1923.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1925, Toronto got to use street light signals for the first time at the Yonge and Bloor intersection. Police officers (as seen above) directed traffic at the time. <a href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/News\/TorontoAndGTA\/2006\/08\/08\/1724128-sun.html\">Read more<\/a> in Mike Filey&#8217;s &#8220;The Way We Were&#8221; in today&#8217;s Toronto Sun.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo from Toronto Archives: Fonds 1231, file 1231 it2089 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>southwest corner, Yonge and Bloor, 1923. On this day in 1925, Toronto got to use street light signals for the first time at the Yonge and Bloor intersection. Police officers (as seen above) directed traffic at the time. Read more in Mike Filey&#8217;s &#8220;The Way We Were&#8221; in today&#8217;s Toronto Sun. photo from Toronto Archives:<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/08\/toronto-street-signals-introduced-81-years-ago-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto street signals introduced 81 years ago today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[3056,19,1642],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-mike-filey","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-sun"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto street signals introduced 81 years ago today - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/08\/toronto-street-signals-introduced-81-years-ago-today\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto street signals introduced 81 years ago today - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"southwest corner, Yonge and Bloor, 1923. 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