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Would it really be that hard to have something to detect the presence of pedestrians near the crossing and insert pedestrian cross cycles while they're there?
by caf 4y ago
Would it really be that hard to have something to detect the presence of pedestrians near the crossing and insert pedestrian cross cycles while they're there?
- jen729w 4y agoOn every crossing? It might not be hard but it surely would be expensive. I'd guess that there are tens of thousands of these buttons around Greater Sydney, possibly even in to the hundreds of. Also Sydney's crossing buttons are notably reliable. They last for decades and have been adopted across many other Australian cities and, IIRC, overseas somewhere.
- daveoc64 4y agoWe have sensors in the UK that detect when pedestrians have walked away after pushing the button (so it can cancel the pedestrian crossing cycle). They're really unreliable.