throughout his life, and later fully redesigned his traffic light using a metal frame.

Wire never patented his traffic lights, and by the 1960s both of the original models had been lost. However, his work played a significant role in the development and adoption of the traffic light in the United States. Replicas of Wire's traffic lights have been built since the loss of the originals, and his contributions to traffic management are memorialized by the Utah Department of Transportation