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Does the button even do anything though?
The two crossings I go through daily, the light wont go red unless the buttons is pressed. Its so hostile towards peds that it sometimes resets even if you have pressed the button.
In an ideal world peds should get an automatic priority i.e. the moment ped arrives at lights the the light goes red, no delay, no buttons.
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In an ideal world peds should get an automatic priority i.e. the moment ped arrives at lights the the light goes red, no delay, no buttons.
I agree to a point, but a delay should exist between button presses so that one couldn't be disruptive by pressing the button again and again. (There are some lights where this works and people have done it in the past.)
But, yes, pressing the button should make the lights go red straight away unless they've been red within a certain time period before, in which case there is the usual delay.
Button, delay, red = bad
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In an ideal world peds should get an automatic priority
This presupposes that there would be cars in an ideal world
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The lights to cross New Cross Road in front of the Morleys do this, they take an age to change and you need to keep checking the button as it will just turn itself off after a few minutes anyway. Think I've had to press it three times to get across before.
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In an ideal world peds should get an automatic priority i.e. the moment ped arrives at lights the the light goes red, no delay, no buttons.
There's a bike crossing here that is triggered as bike passes over sensor 20m before. It is so satisfying.
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the light goes red, no delay, no buttons.
I mentioned the cycle crossing, I was riding that way today...
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Does the button even do anything though?
Pre-covid when you could touch stuff in public without feeling like you're risking your life, I still enjoyed holding the little knob underneath the box (not a euph) and waiting for it to spin when the green man comes on. Yes I am a child/no I am not blind.