One long forgotten Belgrade: Traffic light was a strange device that read "keep right" (PHOTO)

Citizens were watching the pillars with different light, they went around them from all sizes and question what are those devices for

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The first car in Belgrade, Czech "neseldorf", bought in 1903 by Boza Radulovic, the son of a prominent merchant, for a sum that could be used to buy solid two storey house in better part of the city. It arrived into Serbian capital by train and factory driver, whose mission was to train the owner into driving it.

 

Once they were old and dilapidated, and now THE WHOLE ZEMUN TALKS ABOUT THESE COLORFUL STAIRS! (PHOTO)

 

But Radulovic had no intentions, nor bravery to do it personally. He hired a photographer Sreten Kostic, who went through 45 days of training and became a first driver in Serbia.

 

He and his employer Boza Radolovic had problems with gasoline. There were no gas stations, so they bought it in pharmacy where it was sold in small bottles. 

 

Only few years later, the situation changed completely: there were gas stations and vehicles, so the city administration posted a first traffic sign. It was on Avalski street and it said "keep right". 

 

Instead of light signalization, drivers were using sound at crossroadsOne honk for "i am going forward", two "i am turning right", three "i am turning  left". In November 1939 Belgrade and Yugoslavia got their first traffic lights on the corner of Aleksandar I Boulevard and Takovska street, near the main post office. Politika papers writes on 5 November:

 

- These days Belgrade will get something new, which is in modern cities in the west in use a long time ago. Special devices will be places on the corners of these streets with light signals, which will give necessary signals to the divers and ensure the safe traffic in the capital.

 

 

 

- Four pillars will be placed on the mentioned corner, on on each inner corner, with devices on top which will emit special light signals, visible in any part of the day and they will show if passage is possible in any direction.

 

New installations were noticed at the corner of the postal savings banks by many citizens. Many who saw them for the first time pointed at them and asked if they can pass or not.

 

- First "Green wave" was introduced in Belgrade in 1965. in the Knez Milos street, from Mostar loop to the Despot Stefan Boulevard. The aim was to improve the flow and greater safety in traffic.

 

 

First female driver was Queen Marija, who married Aleksandar Karadjordjevic when she was 22. Brusque and adventurous spirit, he quickly fell in love with cars.

 

She often drove her husband, and she was known for her marathon drivers from Belgrade to Bucharest, and in several times she want from Belgrade to Paris.

 

(Telegraf.co.uk / Kurir)

 

 

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