--- title: Smart: This Dancing Traffic Light Makes Waiting to Cross Much More Fun description: Since nobody likes to wait at traffic lights, one company, Smart, decided to place a very special set of traffic lights. canonical: https://time.com/3399059/this-dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-to-cross-much-more-fun/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-18T18:51:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:44.559Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This Dancing Traffic Light Makes Waiting To Cross Much More Fun og:description: Sidewalk, meet dance floor og:url: https://time.com/3399059/this-dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-to-cross-much-more-fun/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Dancing Traffic Light Makes Waiting To Cross Much More Fun twitter:description: Sidewalk, meet dance floor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Dancing Traffic Light Stop People in Their Tracks by [Rachel Oakley / Lost At E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Rachel Oakley / Lost At E Minor Sep 18, 2014 6:51 PM UTC by [Rachel Oakley / Lost At E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Rachel Oakley / Lost At E Minor Sep 18, 2014 6:51 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/09/18/dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-green-light-time-party/) _originally appeared on Lost at E Minor._ Since nobody likes to wait at traffic lights, one company, [Smart](http://int.smart.com/en/en/index/smart-campaigns/whatareyoufor.html), decided to place a very special set of traffic lights in the middle of Lisbon, Portugal. They allowed random pedestrians to enter an oversized traffic light studio, dance, and their moves were displayed in real time on the traffic lights outside. The idea wasn’t just to amuse people waiting at stop lights, but also to make it a safer area, since Smart believes traffic lights are some of the most dangerous spots in the city. And through this extra fun installation, Smart was able to make 81% more people stop at the red lights and wait. See! Dancing _can_ change the world! (via [Viral Nova](http://www.viralnova.com/dancing-traffic-light/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3399059/this-dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-to-cross-much-more-fun/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3399059/this-dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-to-cross-much-more-fun/"},"headline":"Watch This Dancing Traffic Light Stop People in Their Tracks","datePublished":"2014-09-18T18:51:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:44.559Z","description":"Sidewalk, meet dance floor","url":"https://time.com/3399059/this-dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-to-cross-much-more-fun/","keywords":["Innovation","Traffic","dance"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Oakley / Lost At E Minor"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3399059/this-dancing-traffic-light-makes-waiting-to-cross-much-more-fun/","name":"Watch This Dancing Traffic Light Stop People in Their Tracks"}}]}] ```