Don't Walk!
February 5, 1952 - The First "Don't Walk" signs appeared in Manhattan.
Busy Manhattan streets first displayed "Don't Walk" signs on this day in 1952. In response to a rapidly increasing number of pedestrian fatalities, New York City installed its first automatic "Don't Walk" signs throughout the Manhattan burrow. However, after fifty years of service, the city switched most of the signs from "Walk/Don't Walk" to the international symbols of a Walking Person and the Upheld Orange Hand. The process of changing all eighty-five-thousand signs began in 2000, at a cost of $28.2 million.
Quote for ToDay:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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