Where was LA's first automated crosswalk? At North Figueroa and Meridian Streets in Highland Park--the "pedestrian activated signal" was pushed by the city's first traffic engineer (Ralph Dorsey) and installed in early 1929 in front of Luther Burbank Junior High School, for the children. [Highland Park Patch, image via]
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