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About the crosswalk thing, I'm pretty sure that's a myth. At least everywhere I've lived if you don't press the button, you don't get a walk sign. There are int
by jhbadger 9y ago
About the crosswalk thing, I'm pretty sure that's a myth. At least everywhere I've lived if you don't press the button, you don't get a walk sign. There are intersections that have walk signs automatically, but they don't have buttons.
- smhost 9y agoYeah where I live, if there are no cars the lights don't change.
- mjevans 9y agoI hate, REALLY hate the intersections that try to be smart about me taking a kitty-corner crossing by pressing both direction buttons. When I do that, I'm trying to tell the light what I need so it can figure out the correct timing signals to get me where I need to go faster.
- Nition 9y agoThis is also the case where I live - if you don't press the button the whole thing stays unlit so you know it's "off".
- seszett 9y agoIt's the same for door-close buttons in the handful of elevators I use regularly. The doors do close just when you push it, whereas you have to wait several seconds if you don't.
- yoz-y 9y agoDepends, in my apartment the door close button is actually counter productive as you have to push it all the way until the door closes. As people tend to only push it quickly, it actually opens the door which was already closing. Pretty annoying.
- jo909 9y agoThere are busy intersections where the buttons are installed, but are only active outside of rush hours or on weekends or not on weekends or only when the circus is in town etc. Because the programming of the lights is different to facilitate maximum throughput (f.e. with a green wave) in some periods, and the walk signs are on a constant/different timing then.