Pressing the button at a pelican crossing

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What is wrong with people?

I have noticed this at least 5 times now. Fools just walk up to the crossing and wait, willing the lights to change, ignoring the button that make the cars stop. Did these people not go to school and learn how to cross the road?

Then you have the awkward moment where you wonder if they are going to realise and press it or if you have to intervene. I blame the media.
 
It's the people who press it and cross it anyway, with no vehicles in sight. Gets annoying when I'm sat at a crossing in the car with nobody waiting to cross.
 
Dup said:
It's the people who press it and cross it anyway, with no vehicles in sight. Gets annoying when I'm sat at a crossing in the car with nobody waiting to cross.
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this is me
but then i have to teach the kids proper road sense and that means crossing at the green man even if no cars are in sight :D
 
In my drunken early years, I had great fun in pressing it and then just carrying on walking without crossing. Hee-hee.
 
If its clear and quiet, and there is definitely no cars coming, I cross without pushing it.

If it's quite busy, I push it and wait.

Seems the right thing to do.....
 
Sometimes I don't press it because it takes almost 5mins for the lights to actually change at a certain junction, I just wait for a break in the traffic. Thank god we don't have jaywalking laws like America.
 
there are some crossings where I'm sure it makes no difference if you press the button or not, the lights just carry on doing what they always do
 
Zogger said:
there are some crossings where I'm sure it makes no difference if you press the button or not, the lights just carry on doing what they always do
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Yep, there are plenty like this in London, the green man is sequenced in all the time so it comes up every few minutes regardless of whether someone presses the button...
 
Was stood at one yesterday, had pressed the button and was waiting for it to change, when a woman came up looked at the button, with the lights around it lit up, meaning it had been pressed and pressed it again. Was wondering if she thought I was stood there for the fun of it.
 
The Pat said:
Was stood at one yesterday, had pressed the button and was waiting for it to change, when a woman came up looked at the button, with the lights around it lit up, meaning it had been pressed and pressed it again. Was wondering if she thought I was stood there for the fun of it.
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I always give the button another push even if its already been pushed. I believe it speeds it up :D
 
The people who don't cross at them, when they are a further two minute walk.

Don't they realise that it would take them longer to wait?
 
It's really pointless pressing the button at the top of my road. It's at a big traffic light for a busy road with a central reservation so the green man comes up only when the cars have been stopped anyway. There is a pedestrian crossing on the other side of the road, but all that does it stop the cars coming from the side street into the traffic lights and you always have loads of time between light changing that it just causes bother.
 
I only press it if it's really busy, it annoys the hell out of me when people press the button then run across before the lights change whilst I'm driving so I tend to just wait for a gap in traffic and peg it across.

That's how we do in London (H)
 
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