I don’t understand, isn’t this the button you press if you want to cross? Are you not supposed to press the button?
I have similar thought processes as an adult pedestrian, and sometimes just cross without pressing the button because I’m not a child.
Then sometimes I think “do i really want to be the idiot that got ran over 10ft away from the pedestrian crossing lights?”
Sounds like a Linkedin post.
if it’s satire, it’s not funny. If it isn’t, he can eff right off.
Making ~100 cars drive 30 minutes to work every day is the destruction of 50 hour of human life, 100 hours both ways, almost every single day, but apparently cars are freedom so 🤷
I’m pretty confident pushing the button actually doesn’t do anything. You press the button and wait forever and eventually the lights change but they were gonna do that anyway.
It depends on the intersection. Yes, some are a placebo, too many are token, but some actually work.
I know for my nearby intersections, when the button is not pressed, even when the lights change, the walk signal will never illuminate.
I’ve started walking around my town a lot more since Covid, and see all three regulalrly
Yeah, a lot of the time they’re just there because people look for them if they’re not and then they fidget, don’t wait for the signal and dash into traffic.
The town I grew up in, the vast majority didn’t do anything but they gently beeped, and if you pushed the button it would tell you the sign status until it completed the cycle. Helpful for vision impaired people.
There were a few that shifted the traffic lights to a different cycle and otherwise it never did a pedestrian cycle.There was one though, where pushing the button nearly immediately started a pedestrian cycle.
There was a wide block with an apartment building in the middle on one side, and a grocery store directly across from it. Not long enough that people complained, but enough so that people still trotted across the otherwise busy street a lot. After trying nearly everything else they eventually put a traffic light in the middle of the block that was nearly entirely on demand for the crosswalk button, because almost any delay and the (college student) residents would just dash across.Watching confused drivers was fun.
In my country, if you don’t press it, you won’t get green. The intersection will still change, but the pedestrian light won’t. If the button isn’t pressed, the intersection light will change faster, since there won’t be pedestrians holding up traffic.
Raises a good point. So we should destroy those cars to make way for trams.
Add a giant “cow catcher” to the front of the tram, reinforced so that even the car brain with the most oversized pickup is at the same risk as the rest of us
Trams that never brake because of the collective loss of efficiency that might happen. It’s like the trolley problem except there’s 50 people on the trolley and the amount of money lost by them being collectively late for work is worth the loss of life.
Ohh yes, +1 vote for the trams of death.
Ok. I’ll also push it when I’ll be on the other side of the street, for the next pedestrians.
This the same guy who made calls for child labour to be legalised and for the civil rights act to be repealed… I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this isn’t (deliberately) satire
Let me guess, he is driving an oversized pickup truck with view lines worse than a German WII tank, right? Or am I haunted by prejudices?
i’d like to see it the other way around, drivers have to get out and run over to press the beg button. At least they will be getting some exercise.
I completely agree, which is why I, an able bodied adult, always run out into oncoming traffic and die
I don’t get the reclining airline seats thing. Get over it
If the person in front of me reclines all the way I can’t put a laptop or tablet on my tray table and can’t hold a book up where I can read it properly. Worst of all the seat jams into my knees which is very painful. Plus I get to smell their head. Wish they’d either put in non reclining seats or limit it to 1-2 inches. It fucking sucks being behind someone intent on reclining.
The confusion I feel as a European about this post.
I have no idea what is the supposed message of the “author”. Don’t cross the street?
Only the poors walk. Don’t be poor.
Their logic: people in cars = captains of industry who cannot be delayed as they go to their power lunches
People on foot = slovenly, slackjawed peasants who are obviously wasting time
This guy would love Car Park Capital. Tycoon game where you convert a pedestrian city into a traffic nexus for giant metal frames.