Comment 70914

By SpaceMonkey (registered) | Posted October 26, 2011 at 18:30:16 in reply to Comment 70911

Yeah.. I think those yellow flashing cross walks can be pretty dangerous. I think the problem is that as soon as those yellow lights start flashing, many pedestrians assume it's safe to cross and that cars are going to stop.

I remember when I was a child, my Dad was driving and almost hit someone at one of those types of crosswalks. It would have been my Dad's fault, he didn't see the yellow lights.. I'm not excusing him.. just saying they can be dangerous.

If you're going to stop traffic for a pedestrian, you might as well make it a red/green light. It would be cool if "they" could design the crosswalks so when the person gets to the other side, they could hit the button again and then the light could turn from red to green as soon as the person is across. That way, when a younger person crosses, drivers aren't stopped unnecessarily longer than they need to be. The only danger I could see to this is if some malicious person crossed and pressed the button to turn green while an old lady was still making her way slowly across the crosswalk.

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