That's why I no longer stop at red lights. Thats just theft of life. My car also works just fine on either side of the road; limiting it to just one is imprisonment. /s
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Thousands of walk-button Hitlers out there committing one Holocaust of presses every 90 minutes and NO TRIBUNALS???! Make it make sense
Tbf what annoys me more is people who just hang out there on a straight road with no traffic in either direction and refuse to cross til the little white man tells them to.
Like use your damn eyes. There is no one there. Just cross the street.
If its a busy intersection, multiple lanes, press the button.
If its india, just fucking cross because its the driver's job to avoid you and if you just keep walking straight it keeps it predictable for everyone they will find a way to move. If you dont just start walking you won't get to the other side. In which case just stay there
I press every one I see.
Fuck cars and the people who drive them. Get a bus pass.
I don't understand what he wants the pedestrian to do. Not cross at all? Wait until there's no traffic?
I'm guessing he wanted the person to wait until it changes for the cars or something
IRL Frogger
Clearly, the pedestrian should get a car, and OP just happens to work at a used car lot.
Jaywalk.
But if they move in a J formation, they won't successfully cross the street
If it's not, I've been given a new mission from up on high.
"Press ye every walk signal, both ways, on every single street ye walk on. Though ye may be turning right at that corner and not even crossing that that intersection, still press ye the buttons."
Making ~100 cars wait ~30 secs
bud ask me if i give a fuck.
I mean he has a blue check so he's a professional idiot
Even from the picture, that's clearly not 100 cars for a four-way intersection. 12, maybe.
100 (25 per side) would be a massive queue.
Oh hey I recognize that street and that guy. He's a free-stater nutjob who has at least one criminal investigation against him
Is this Concord? I feel like I’ve driven through here a million times but can’t place it.
must be because no one pushed the button and DESTROYED 30 seconds of your life.
I mean, it looks like any one intersection in suburban North America a few years after it was built.
Wow, i genuinely thought this was satire or rage bait but guy might actually think this way
Excellent bait imo
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.
Not to mention the fact that to cross to the opposite corner, a pedestrian often has to press two buttons and wait for two sets of light changes. Drivers only have to wait more than one when there are too many cars.
While also sitting on cushioned seats in a closed off, air-conditioned space. The lazy bastards can fucking wait for me to mozy on by.
Oh you mean like a bus full of people sitting behind a 1995 camary?
Yeah, if the busses are used a lot they should get their own lanes and other special considerations.
As long as I'm adding another comment, I should mention that it's usually not the city planners fault. It's interest groups leaning on elected officials to lean on the city planners, who would design safe and efficient cities if left to their own devices.
You've got it backwards. Give them their own lane and priority at signals etc. Then they will get used a lot.
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You don't push the button because you're concerned about delaying cars.
I don't push the button because I trust my own eyes better than a walk/don't walk signal, and I can usually find a good opening faster than it takes for the signal to change to 'walk'.
We are not the same.
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.
Stroad, n. A road on steroids
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This is ragebait either originally or reposting it here, even if you did caption it how you did.
Can we keep the infantile engagement/rage bait off of this site? Be better y'all
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Who cares? I have to wait for them to stop so I can cross, so they're wasting MY time.
Yet again, the convenience of the car comes before the health and safety of the general public.
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 most certainly changes on some roads, usually to adjust timing for safe crossing. There's a street here that's notoriously wide for stupid reasons (parking in the median lol) and if pedestrians are around it gives them about 60 seconds. No button? Usually 15, but depends a little on time of day.
There's an interesting other case I've heard about from my Mom. There was a light that, at 3am, generally never changed unless a button was pushed. My mom had to get out of her car to push it every night after her night shift. I'm not sure that is still the case, but I suppose if your car never activates a sensor (or you're on a bike or motorcycle), it makes sense.
I think it probably depends on the city and maybe even the intersection. Here, when they're working (not a given) you get a walk signal (whereas if you don't push the button it stays a solid do not cross hand). Additionally, the length of the green light is potentially extended to allow enough time for pedestrians to cross.
There's even one intersection here on a road with designated and flimsy bollard separated bike route where I can be approaching on my bike in the bike lane and it notices me and turns the light green for me which is super cool.
Are you from nirvana? :o
Mostly for the second thing, the first is pretty common in my area as well.
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