Push Button To Wait Anyway
February 27th, 2004
The city deactivated most of the pedestrian buttons long ago with the
emergence of computer-controlled traffic signals, even as an unwitting
public continued to push on, according to city Department of
Transportation officials. More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that
still exist function essentially as mechanical placebos, city figures
show. Any benefit from them is only imagined.
At least in NYC, the
push-to-walk buttons are inactive. [via harbinger]