The new talkie buttons make an audible chirp when pressed, and I
think the Jack-in-the-Box then begins telling you to WAIT. Not a huge
improvement, but it's something I suppose.
I'll go on the record with many others as being as being irritated
with being required to push a button, often a poorly accessible
button, to get a green. Atwood at Dunning, North Shore at John Nolen,
Blair at Williamson; the list goes on. Even more difficult to live
with is the tug of war between motorists bitching about cyclists
blowing lights and Traffic Engineering telling us that "the
pedestrian button needs to be pushed in order to call a green cycle
long enough to include the pedestrian cycle." The persistent urge to
tell either or both groups to get stuffed is almost more than one can
bear.
Michael Lemberger
Madison
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Richard Frueh wrote:
The other problem is that most of us have been trained over the
years that WALK buttons don't do anything. Go to Germany and push
one, and it lights up. The new ones at Washington and Fairchild do
this. Otherwise, it seems like nothing at all happens.
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