Motoring Discussion > new pedestrian lights Miscellaneous
Thread Author: wotspur Replies: 13
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 Wed 15 Dec 10 22:36 
 new pedestrian lights - wotspur
I came over Tower Bridge yesterday, away from the City, and was in awe of the new traffic lights, - there is actually a count down for pedestrians so they know how many seconds they have left to try and cross over prior to the traffic starts again - what a fantastic idea
If only it could also tell them to look the correct way as well - and not try and make it across after it reaches 0 -
sorry if this has been mentioned before
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 00:53 
 new pedestrian lights - bathtub tom
When I'm a pedestrian, I thought Green means Go and Red means Run. ;>)
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 00:54 
 new pedestrian lights - R.P.
I've seen these in some foreign parts, Boston maybe ??
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 07:52 
 new pedestrian lights - PR
Bangkok has timings for the road users. Big red letters count down on stop and big green ones for go. Seemed to work very well.
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 09:35 
 new pedestrian lights - Alanovich
They have them in Belgrade, and they also have countdowns for cars at traffic lights too. I love those.
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 09:37 
 new pedestrian lights - Old Navy
>> They have them in Belgrade, and they also have countdowns for cars at traffic lights
>> too. I love those.
>>

The same in parts of Egypt.
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 12:39 
 new pedestrian lights - IJWS14
Was in Amsterdam at the weekend.

They give a visible countdown to the green man and there is a loud ticking whike the green man is on.

Very good system
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 12:45 
 new pedestrian lights - Old Navy
Some of our crossings have the "click" sound, and a few announce "Traffic travelling in the direction of xxxxxx has been signalled to stop". Or appropriate wording. As well as being a driver I am also a pedestrian. :-)
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 12:55 
 new pedestrian lights - R.P.
In a Scots accent ON ?
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 12:58 
 new pedestrian lights - Old Navy
I had not thought of that, as I have an english accent. The equipment must be sourced from the South, it speaks English. :-)
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 12:59 
 new pedestrian lights - R.P.
:-0 !
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 15:12 
 new pedestrian lights - L'escargot
>> I've seen these in some foreign parts, Boston maybe ??
>>

Lincolnshire or Massachusetts?
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 15:14 
 new pedestrian lights - Mike Hannon
Had them in some parts of Spain for years.
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 Thu 16 Dec 10 15:45 
 new pedestrian lights - Bromptonaut
IIRC they're one of BoJo's initiatives. Added to the Kingsway/High Holborn junction during the late summer they're ceertainly a usefull addition.
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