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Traffic signals
Flashing green light
What it means
You may go straight, turn left or turn right without stopping, because opposing traffic faces a red light. You must still yield to pedestrians and to any vehicle lawfully in the intersection.
Traffic lights, lane-control and pedestrian signals.
Summarised from the Alberta Driver’s Guide. Read the original: Traffic control ↗
How to recognise it
The green lens flashing on and off.
Where you will see it
Some signalized intersections, where your direction goes while opposing traffic is held at a red light.
What to do when you see it
- 1.You may go straight, turn left or turn right without stopping.
- 2.Opposing traffic faces a red light, but you must still yield to pedestrians and to any vehicle lawfully in the intersection.
On the knowledge test
Answer as the Alberta guide does: go through or turn either way without stopping, because opposing traffic has a red. Do not confuse it with a flashing yellow, which means caution and yielding.
Do not confuse it with
- Flashing yellow lightA flashing yellow gives no protected turn: proceed with caution after yielding to pedestrians and other vehicles.
- Green arrow with green lightA green arrow with a green light lets you go without yielding only in the arrow’s direction; the flashing green covers straight, left and right.