6.One group that Crockett has been burrowing in with lately is traffic engineers — the people responsible for designing, sourcing, building, and maintaining signalized traffic intersections.
7.One of the stanchest patrons was little Ned Higgins, the devourer of Jim Crow and the elephant, who to-day signalized his omnivorous prowess by swallowing two dromedaries and a locomotive.
8.It's hard to say exactly how many traffic lights there are in the U.S., but these engineers have a rule of thumb: there's roughly one signalized intersection per 1,000 residents.
9.The breakdown of the state was signalized in the Treaty of Verdun (843) when the three sons of Louis I, the Pious, divided the territories, the eastern portion going to Louis the German.
10.But really, signalized intersections are designed for maximum efficiency, basically about an hour-and-a-half a day — maybe 45 minutes in the A.M. peak hour and 45 minutes in the P.M. peak hour.
11.Many in the environmental community like the fact that because traffic isn't stopped, like it is at a traditional signalized intersection, you don't have vehicles idling and therefore the emissions from those idling vehicles is less.
12.For the rest of the day, the more timid went whole streets about, for the sake of avoiding the Seven Gables; while the bolder signalized their hardihood by challenging their comrades to race past the mansion at full speed.