"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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Milen Lazarov wrote in message
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Flashing green means that the crossing traffic has a stop sign (or a
flashing red, which is the same) instead of a red light. You still have
right of way but you can expect cars coming out of the side streets
turning left or right.
At some intersections there are no lights at all for the crossing
traffic, just a stop sign. At others, most of the time the lights will
stay in this mode on the main street and would change to red only if
there's a real backup on the cross streets.

Ok, that makes sense. So you have a green to go (I figured that out
watching others) but the cross traffic does not have a solid red (i.e.
they may go if they think they can). Thanks!
-Robert

Just be aware of the following:

Nearly everywhere in Canada, a flashing green means opposing traffic is on a
red and you have a free left turn (and, of course, a free straight through
like a normal green). This will be a fairly rapid flash, more that 1 flash
per second.

But some years ago I came across a distinctly SLOW flashing green, like 1
per second or slower, which was used in a manner identical to what we would
associate with a flashing YELLOW: "proceed with caution ...cross traffic
has a flashing red, but since opposing traffic has the flashing yellow (or
slow green) as well, and *you must yield on left turns to the opposing
traffic* as per normal".

I admit that this has been fifteen years ago or more and I hope the
slow-green practice has been discontinued and totally replaced with yellows.