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Reads text and answers questions to show an understanding of road traffic control.
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• Students tally and record the cars passing by their home in 15 minutes at a given time on a particular day. Display the results for the class to complete a block graph. Discuss.
• To control the volume of traffic, some cities have special lanes only for cars which carry more than one passenger in a car-pool arrangement between or among drivers.
• The thin black cables we occasionally see on roads are when the traffic authority is monitoring the number of vehicles the road carries. • Roadway detectors are electrified wire loops that react to the metal in vehicles.
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Additional activities
• Describe the feeling of travelling too fast over a speed bump.
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• The first modern-type electric traffic signals were installed in Cleveland, USA in 1914.
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• Brainstorm to create an illustrated list of electronic traffic signs in use on roads today.
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