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@Oliver Schick may know more about the Ken Livingstone's era more, the peds timing are more consistent, but they're shorter than most of the crossing that was previously long enough for says, an elderly to comfortably walk across without the light changing halfway through.
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I'd say in terms of crossing timing peds have got it better now. Ped-Xs are now de rigueur as opposed to pelicans which caused driver intimidation and puffins that, well no one aprt from the DfT knew what they were about. Ped timings are also a lot more consistent throughout London now before they were so inconsistent. TfL's also working on ways to respresent pedestrian demand more intelligently eg Ped SCOOT. I wouldn't attribute these changes to Boris but it's inaccurate to say it was better for peds before, it wasn't. (not saying it's great now either)
I'm sure I'm wrong about many things and someone like Oliver would probably correct me but I feel it's dangerous to make wild claims without being able to substantiate them.