I had never heard the term "scramble crossing" so I looked it up, and found this gem, from the former traffic commissioner of NYC: "As things stood now, a down

I had never heard the term "scramble crossing" so I looked it up, and found this gem, from the former traffic commissioner of NYC: "As things stood now, a downtown shopper needed a four-leaf clover, a voodoo charm, and a St. Christopher's medal to make it in one piece from one curbstone to the other. As far as I was concerned ­— a traffic engineer with Methodist leanings — I didn't think that the Almighty should be bothered with problems which we, ourselves, were capable of solving."