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Just for you, Jeff, I’m pushing every single walk button I see, especially when I’m not crossing the road.
In my area all of those buttons are vestigial and the cross walks all go on timers.
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
Although, surprisingly, he did mention those as exceptions.
Honestly, I think the solution is to put an arched bridge over intersections. This lets pedestrians to cross intersections freely without disrupting traffic. The big problem is that this requires a bit more infrastructure, since these bridges have to have ramps for the wheel-chair bound, bikers, and people on crutches. There is probably an disability architect who has calculations and knowledge about the costs and planning this kind of thing would take.
…still, probably cheaper than traffic accidents, even if it initially costs a good bit of dough.
I am guessing that at a four-way intersection, the arched bridge would be an X shape, or Lamda-ish if there are three spots. People move to the center, then point themselves towards their destination. The underside of the bridge can host traffic lights.
Thousands of walk-button Hitlers out there committing one Holocaust of presses every 90 minutes and NO TRIBUNALS???! Make it make sense
You joke, but that’s exactly the kind of rhetoric that’s getting increasingly common on Lemmy. “You’re basically a Nazi supporter” for using an app one time 10 years ago where the developer of that app “was caught” giving an upvote to some other social media personality who was recently filmed having lunch at Chickfila, which is known to donate to anti-LGBTQIABLMDEI+ causes.
No, it’s not.
Sincerely, a terminally online Lemmy user.
If someone calls you a nazi supporter while you don’t feel you are, either you are one but you don’t believe so or you are not one. I’m going to guess you are the second category, in which case there is no reason to care they call you a nazi-supporter. Especially if it is FORMATTED with RANDOM capitals and exclamation MARKS!!
This is ragebait either originally or reposting it here, even if you did caption it how you did.
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
I pay for both sides of the road….
I’m taking my 2” recline it’s all I got
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.
You’re not finding any openings without pressing the button if there really are 100 cars crossing in the span of 30 seconds.
People intentionally say stupid things on Twitter to rile up viewers into arguing in the replies (free engagement!) and get even people who hate them to share their “content”
I don’t understand what he wants the pedestrian to do. Not cross at all? Wait until there’s no traffic?
I see people press the button and wait when there’s clearly no traffic.
Yes, because you have a red light, you stop, press button and wait for green. At least that’s what I’ve been teaching to my kid, maybe I’m wrong?
Well, if there’s a pedestrian traffic light, that’s the legal thing to do
Also the speed limit there might be 45 miles per hour. Crossing 6 lanes of traffic without a light may be impossible even if there is no traffic when you start!
Press button, stay in the lines, if worried about success of your personal injury suit :)
I think he just wants pedestrians to just not exist at all or maybe die trying to cross while traffic is flowing.
Jaywalk.
But if they move in a J formation, they won’t successfully cross the street
Clearly, the pedestrian should get a car, and OP just happens to work at a used car lot.
And when everybody’s driving they’ll complain there is too much traffic and the roads are now clogged.
Well he’s a blockchain guy so maybe he wants everyone to rent or lease used cars via some DeFi car lending app.
I’m guessing he wanted the person to wait until it changes for the cars or something
IRL Frogger
Frogger.
If it’s real I think he should be sent to a re-education camp. America really needs them.
While the dude who pressed the button witnessed 100 able, adult people sitting in a polluting metal box instead of walking, cycling or taking public transport.
I would love to do those instead of driving to work. Walking would take 14 hours, biking 4 hours, and the closest public transport I can get on is the same distance drive to work.
Got a new job and my bike commute went from 2.5 hours (tried once and it sucked) to 25 minutes. Work-life balance is 100% better, even if the bike path here bites the big one.
A polluting metal death machine. I’ve had 3 acquaintances die from being hit by some driver, and in at least 2 of those cases, the driver was younger than 25 (which is the age when your brain finishes maturing and you get better impulse control).
That 25 number is just the age they stopped that study at, not some magical number where everyone is now officially mature. The human brain continues developing through your life.
Your entire body continues developing throughout your life, but there’s a point where you quit getting taller.
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.
Never mind being a ass hat, we see three cars at the one light. Even if the other three parts of the intersection had thrice as many cars, we would still be well shy of a hundred. And also, half (maybe less if turning lanes) would be using the same light as the pedestrian.
