Why does one American city have a traffic light with a green signal at the top? Detailed answer

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Why does one American city have a traffic light with a green signal at the top?

In the American city of Syracuse, New York, there is a quarter of Tipperary Hill, populated mainly by the descendants of Irish immigrants. Here is the only traffic light in the world, which has a green signal at the top and a red one at the bottom. When the traffic light was first installed in 1925, children smashed the glass in it because the Irish green was under the British red. Three years later, the authorities gave up and decided to permanently fix the reverse location of the signals at this traffic light.

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