While they keep telling you that not everyone here obeys traffic signals, I haven’t actually felt that it was any more dangerous than NY City streets – perhaps even less so.  Gotta be vigilant both places, but people are nicer here and they drive slower!  

They do have a totally cool thing with traffic signals at major intersections though… Huge countdown clocks so you never have any question about when it’ll be your turn to go: 

Or how much time you have left to get through the intersection: 

That said, weirdly enough on lesser intersections with lights, there doesn’t seem to be any “green light” at all.  There’s just “red” and the absence of red….