Cugel wrote:Mike Sales wrote:A matchstick holding the button down is something less than damage. Holding the light on red would help pedestrians.
Crossings are put in places with clear visibility, because the highwaymen cannot rely on the alertness of drivers. You too think that drivers need restraint to stop them killing. You may be right there!
There is available a perfectly good crossing of a type that has a virtual matchstick in the virtual button but only when the pedestrians are there and wanting to cross. It's called a zebra crossing and works very well, since the priority is given to the intermittent pedestrians rather than to the interminable flow of thrusting tin weapons.
This being so, pedestrians don't have to stand for 5 minutes in the rain getting splashed by puddle-running Toads in their cars; and can also proceed across the road at their own pace instead of having to toss aside their stick or pushchair as the flashing lights and beepers exhort them to scurry off quick as Toad is all a-rev and ready to go, slow old gran in the way or not!
Cugel
I know of a place where, if you want to continue your walk along the river bank on the other side of the roaring inner ring road, you have six seperate road crossings, six successive seperate buttons to push and six waits for the lords of the road to be stopped.
I also resent the accelerating noise of the beeper.