Crosswalk etiquette
prevents collisions

3 BIN a perfect world, cars

gand pedestrians would
get along just fine. In a
W perfect world.
¢ Lee's just pretend for a
moment that there are no
such things as brain-dead
pedestrians or benchead dri-
vers, and discuss how regular
folk’are expected.to behave
When crossing a street at a
igh-volume intersection.
Busy intersections are
iB almest always regulated by a
# set of traffic lights. Most of
B these traffic lights are accom-
: Recon bya “pedestrian traf-
ic control device,” which
Ba we've all come to know and
love.as the Walk/Don’t Walk
; Signals.

Many peopie are unaware
that these ped-controls are
regulatory, that is, we are
lawfully obliged to obey
them. That’s right, folks,
when the little orange hand is

indicating Don’t Walk
is egal to cross the

),:when the white sil-
houette of a “walking man”
p, We are allowed to cross
tare still required to ascer-
in if itis safe before doing

ee inally, when the walking
Man Ceappeats and the

Signals

orange Don’t Walk hand
starts flashing, pedestrians
already in the crosswalk are
allowed to finish crossing bur
people stil! on the sidewalk
must stay put.

Yet these simple instruc:
tions are rarely adhered
and if one obeyed every ed
control device encountered it
would take forever just to
walk down Lonsdale Avenue.
Or would it?

That little button on the
corner of most intersections,
the one that makes the walk-
ing man appear, is more pow-
erful a tool than most realize.

Most intersections on the
North Shore have been or
soon will be upgraded to a

' “Pedestrian Recycle” svstem,

designed tu re educe the lon
waiting period between walk
signals. If you push the
pedestrian “Palm Button”
while the Don’t-Walk hand is
flashing you may be surprised

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reappears.

You see, if there is enough
time in the traffic lights’
cvele, the ped-controls can
happily oblige pedestrians as
well — but you have to push
the button betore the lights
know that there is such a
demand, folks!

If there is not cnough
time in the traftic-light cycle
the ped-control will not com-
ply until a fresh green can
accompany a walk signal —
which brings us to the next
point: Traffic lights are
designed to aid the safe and
efficient tluw of traffic.
Pedestrians have a nasty habit
of fouling up this system.

You may have noticed a -
traffic light change exception-
ally quickly. This happens
when a traffic light has decid-
ed that there is no reason for
it to remain green but there
is a line up of cars at its adja-
cent red ight. [ kid you not
folks, traffic lights really
observe and think — in their
own mechanized way (1 cov-
ered this a while back when
we discussed sensors).

In modern systems a walk
signal will force a green light

See Pedestrians page 42

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