Crosswalk Signs

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Loaf Warden
We have the walking man and the big red hand here. I don't have a problem with them, but then, I grew up with them. That's always what we've used here, or at least as long as I've been alive.

On another note, "Walking Man and the Big Red Hand" would make an awesome name for a rock group.

They have crosswalks in Alaska?

 

[cgannon64]

When I visited Boston they had countdown beeps for the last 10 seconds before the light turned red.

I hated them with a passion.

 

[Loaf Warden]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV


They have crosswalks in Alaska?

They have computers in Idaho?

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Loaf Warden


They have computers in Idaho?

No, . I have to drive to Seattle to use the computer i'm posting on right now.

 

[h4ppy]

Originally posted by Siegmund
They are aids for the blind... a single repeated tone when it is safe to cross north-south, and a two-note ****oo-like sound when safe to cross east-west - or vice versa, I forget which way round it is.

How exactly do the blind people know which direction east is?

 

[The Yankee]

If it's a grid, like midtown Manhattan is (except Broadway), then if they know what street their on, they can figure out which way to turn. But then again, I can't imagine all the streets are in grids....hmm...

 

[Ren]

Originally posted by bobgote
we have walking green man/standing still red man. also the red man flashes at a time where no-one new can start walking, but people already walking can continue crossing.

Ditto.

Also, for the blind we have the "chirping" sound when the it is safe to start to cross. For the deaf + blind the case where the button is vibrates when it's safe to start to cross.

 

[hbdragon88]

Hey what's wrong with the Man/Hand ones? I love those ones! In my city, I only wish that we didn't have to press the button - I know that in L.A it's automatic - and that they would have count-downs so you would know whether to run the street or stop.

 

[The Yankee]

In NYC, there used to be buttons that one could push to start turning the lights and allow you to cross. I think they've all been disabled. Guess too many people thought crossing the street would be a good idea.

 

[Håkon]

Originally posted by bobgote
we have walking green man/standing still red man. also the red man flashes at a time where no-one new can start walking, but people already walking can continue crossing.

Same here, only the green man flashes when no-one can start walking. And at some crossings, there are sounds which aid the blind (only problem is, they can't be heard over the traffic noise )

 

[Pongui]

Originally posted by Ren
For the deaf + blind the case where the button is vibrates when it's safe to start to cross.

Now that is clever. Keep it all in one box. Low-tech, cheap, effective, subtle. The only snag I envision is a crowd of deaf and blind guys brawling over who gets to feel the vibrating button.

 

[Dralix]

Originally posted by cgannon64
When I visited Boston they had countdown beeps for the last 10 seconds before the light turned red.

We have a digital countdown dispay for this.

 

[cgannon64]

In NYC, there used to be buttons that one could push to start turning the lights and allow you to cross.

Dude, those things had to be fake. I remember pressing it all I want and nothing happened. Unless that was after they disabled it.

If they really worked at some point, that could be the worst idea ever. Let pedestrians control when they walk? It would wreck havoc, no fluid traffic flow at all.

 

[The Yankee]

They did work at one point....at least some of them did. I remember when I was little (if I ever WAS little) being able to push that button and the flashing don't walk signal would start, getting ready for the light to change. Then again, a lot of Brooklyn doesn't have fluid traffic flow through traffic lights anyway.

 

[Dralix]

Many cities have these buttons and they do "work" but what exactly do they do? They do not instantly change the light. They do however, let the system know that someone wants to cross, the same way that sensors detect a car that wants to go through the intersection in the opposite direction that traffic is flowing (if that makes sense ... you know what I mean).

What the system then does with that information is anyone's guess.

 

[The Yankee]

Right...it obviously doesn't do it instantly. It just starts the routine of changing to yellow then red lights.

They were disabled in NYC...I think that would be the same for any street sensors that may have been in place.

 

[cgannon64]

@ Dralix: Maybe they ignore it.