Entrance to OU has traffic lights

From the December 1949 The Alumni Gateway

 

Traffic safety lights at the entrance to the University have been installed by the city after five years of petitioning by the Board of Regents. The lights were installed at a cost of $2,700.

 

"We're happy about it," said Herbert Marshall, Chairman of the Board of Regents Building and Grounds Committee. "It should help to eliminate traffic hazards due to a greatly increased enrollment."

 

The Sixtieth Street entrance has long been termed as a traffic trap particularly to University students who had to break through the fast Dodge traffic.

 

The new lights confused Dodge Street travelers during the first few days of operation until instructions were painted on the streets. Drivers didn't know that they could make a left turn onto Sixtieth Street through a red light or green light.

 

Last year at a meeting of the Board of Regents, it was voted to ask for yellow warning lights.