WHY?
Why do we have to press the button to cross the road at traffic lights?
Is it too difficult to assume that at some point of the traffic-light cycle a pedestrian might want to cross the street?
There are two sets of traffic lights in Sydney that work correctly as far as I know, in that they assume there are pedestrians therefore do not require a crossing button. They are in Crows Nest, at the intersections of Hume & Oxley Streets with the Pacific Highway.
I don’t know why more sets of lights aren’t like this – surely it would be cheaper not to build all those buttons.
posted by Corinoco @ 4:47 pm
1 Comments:
Agree... to a point. There are a small percentage of intersections where the traffic flow is altered in order to allow pedestrians to cross (e.g. all directions of traffic stop). These require a button as otherwise traffic would stop in all directions for no reason. An additional case is where a major road has precedence and the lights never change unless triggered.
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