What's with the assumption that the pedestrian getting to their destination is less important than all the drivers? If a bunch of people get held up a long time for a smaller number of people, blame the city planners.
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That's a 6 lane road. You must be perpetually on steroids to think that would be normal.
Stroad, it's a stroad. It's why I hate North America.
A left turn lane, a right turn, and a through lane is normal? Anything else allows endless backups. Pedestrians prevent cars from turning right and left, and oncoming prevents cars from turning left, and than no one can go straight either.
It’s usually 2 lanes each way only 100m or so before the intersection and it widens to this configuration. A single lane road still usually has one type of turning lane at all intersection as well.
What are you even complaining about?
Oh hey I recognize that street and that guy. He's a free-stater nutjob who has at least one criminal investigation against him
It's not wrong in the sense that an idling combustion engine is more polluting that one maintaining a speed. An ideal intersection is where all cars can smoothly interact without stopping, something only possible in the theoretical computer guided traffic crossings. Such places would have to have a pedestrian bridge nearby, as they aren't compatible with the slow human form.
So trains. You're describing light rail.
The average yank: “A what?!”
It means "just a little cocaine".
The most obvious solution to "idling combustion engine is polluting" is get rid of the combustion engine to the extent possible.
Ped bridges take up a large area and are expensive. Also what if youre in a wheel chair?
round about with a walk over bridge.
done annnnd done.
Ah yes, let’s force the non-motorised to climb stairs or make a minutes long detour!
I heard an electromagnetic catapult is about to become available, maybe there's another way to solve this. Gotta keep refreshing that GSA auction site.
ok so we could use pneumatic tubes to go places...
Underground round about with a park on top.
What if youre in a wheel chair?
Dang, too bad no one's ever thought of that... Oh wait
Dang look at the size of them, its almost like you can't put them at every cross walk...
Oh and the cost isn't prohibitive, who would have thunk?
Why would every intersection need one?
I always assumed the button is just for mashing to soothe angry monkeys, it doesn't actually change the light, does it? That's madness.
It certainly doesn't cause the lights for the cars to change at the intersection at the corner of my apartment. It rarely ever even gives the pedestrian the little dude on the screen instead of the big orange hand.
Might tell the electronics that there's a person waiting so it'll do the audible chirps or pre-recorded verbal messages when the lights change. Haven't paid enough attention to notice whether they still happen with no button-press.
Troll's gonna troll.
I think this guy is maybe just a for real asshole.
I might be fixing up a big bowl of Poe Slaw here but if OOP is who he claims to be, it's plausible. Seems like the kind of jackass who would mean it. Yet another waste of initials that could've meant they were just kidding.
Utilitarianism is a tricky philosophy, it's got a lot of sharp edges like this.
This guy is going to shoot a pedestrian for pushing crosswalk signal buttons and claim he's stopping a serial killer.
"Jeremy Kauffman is an American entrepreneur and political activist known for founding and leading the blockchain-based filesharing project LBRY. He is also a vocal supporter and activist within the Free State Project (FSP), a movement designed to get libertarians to move to New Hampshire. Kauffman was the Libertarian nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in New Hampshire, losing to Democrat Maggie Hassan. He was elected the chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2026. Kauffman has been known for his provocative statements on Twitter that have been deemed violent, racist, and antisemitic. His legal troubles include misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of government administration stemming from an incident where he allegedly tried to fight several people while hurling racist insults."
Full explanation only 6 words in.
This HAS to be satire
I'd say it's about 50/50. Which would make it very good satire if it was. But I don't want to influence Schroedinger's satire by peeking.
No, this guy has actual shitbag vibes: I think it's real.
What makes me mad is when people press the button and then jaywalk immediately anyway. If you press it, you should have to wait just like the drivers will.
What makes me mad is pressing the button and then having to wait an additional 5+ minutes for the ped signal to change because it needs to finish the current green phase for cross traffic and an advance left turn phase before letting peds go.
I’m not a civil engineer, but based on my experience with traffic lights pushing the button doesn’t actually alter the order of operations for the lights, it just makes it so the next time there is a natural gap in traffic that would allow for safe crossing, the crosswalk light turns on. So it doesn’t affect drivers at all. I’m still not a fan of jaywalking unless the road is REALLY clear.
That said, I’m always Jay walking when I go somewhere :P
No, nothing is worse than reclining your airplane seat.
Judging by the pic, it's maybe 6-7 cars so 2-3 minutes of human life destroyed. A little uneven but not terrible.
If that road had 100 cars passing every 30 seconds, there's no able, adult male going to Frogger himself across six lanes.
Nor a mom pushing a stroller, a person w/ a cane, etc