The traffic light: Berlin's silent heroine of mobility for 100 years!

The traffic light: Berlin's silent heroine of mobility for 100 years!

Potsdamer Platz, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland - NAG/NAG Redaktion - On October 20, 1924, a technical sensation was inaugurated at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, which should shape our traffic sustainably: the first electrically operated traffic light! At a time when horse -drawn carriages still dominated, the traffic storm marked an important step towards safe mobility. The then "Verkehrschupo" measured the time with a stopwatch and controled the lamps - a system that was quickly put to the test. A few years later there was a chaos when everyone switched to green at the same time!

The debate about which city had the first traffic carpenter remains heated to this day: While Berlin can complain about the first electrical system, Hamburg set up the first light signal facility in Europe in 1922. The traffic light is not just a simple light signal, but a symbol of order in modern traffic. The story initially started with a security risk in London, a gas light, before the first electrical versions in the USA followed. Today there is a replica of the original traffic light tower at Potsdamer Platz, which is reminiscent of both the challenges and the development of the traffic regulation www.radiohochstift.de .