Good grief.. the article ends with "Install them so that the pedestrians are aware of the timers but the drivers are not. And one way to do that would be to bro

Good grief.. the article ends with "Install them so that the pedestrians are aware of the timers but the drivers are not. And one way to do that would be to broadcast the timers via audio so that the pedestrians can hear the countdown clock go down, but drivers cannot." The defacto standard in the Netherlands is that a pedestrian stop makes a loud ticking sound to aid blind people. When its about to jump to red (lets call this orange) the pace increases, before going calm (not loud, and low pace) when the light is red. The orange period is -say- the time it takes an elderly lady to cross the street. Here, we dont need countdown displays. People should be able look at the oncoming traffic instead.