What did traffic lights mean to some of my Buenos Aires taxi drivers?

I stress the words ‘did’ and ‘some’. Things are much safer now than when I first visited Buenos Aires in the noughties.

But back then…

 

GO.

 

SPEED UP AND GO.

 

SLOW DOWN A FRACTION, LOOK AROUND AND GO IF YOU CAN.

 

IT’LL BE GREEN IN A SECOND, SO GO.