Fallingbrook’s First Traffic Light

It wasn’t really the first traffic signal in Cumberland Township, however it was the first one installed by the Township, not on a regional road. In this photo are (left to right) John Morell (CBE), Ned Lathrop (Chief Administrative Officer of Cumberland Township and the main designer of Fallingbrook), Mayor Brian Coburn, David Villeneuve (president of the Fallingbrook Community Association), Richard Alton (principal of Fallingbrook Community Elementary School), and Chris Baird (Cumberland Township Works Department and a Fallingbrook resident). These lights were also the first to have an Opticom system which enabled approaching fire trucks to turn the lights green. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one on your car?