Why bother pressing them at all?

Most of the buttons are on traffic junctions that include a pedestrian phase. It makes no difference if you press the button or not.

The only time I've ever seen them make a difference is on a standard pedestrian crossing without a traffic junction.

Posted By: Ben on September 5th 2007 at 12:27:02

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Why are people determined to re-press the cross the street button...... (General Chat) - Ricochet Rabbit, Sep 5, 12:16:55
- Why bother pressing them at all? (General Chat) - Ben, Sep 5, 12:27:02
  - Also why have Norwich City council removed all the green men... (General Chat) - Ben, Sep 5, 12:29:10
    - Never mind that... (General Chat) - donkeydublin, Sep 5, 13:16:47
    - And not only that... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 5, 12:32:07
      - bit of a joke really (n/m) (General Chat) - phrankin, Sep 5, 13:18:37
    - I turned my head to look at it and it worked. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 5, 12:31:37
    - I think the reason is to make you look in the traffic direction (General Chat) - megson, Sep 5, 12:31:29
      - Makes sense in a stupid totally unergonomic way (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Sep 5, 12:35:59
        
        but doesn't work in practice as you can't see it in a croud (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Sep 5, 12:37:13
        
        yeah exactly, just causes confoosion (General Chat) - megson, Sep 5, 12:41:29
        
        What about blind people (which the beeps are intended for anyway) (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Sep 5, 12:36:48
        
        There's a little twiddly metal cylinder under the button box (General Chat) - HairyBobbingManAss, Sep 5, 12:47:12
        
        Fuck 'em. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Sep 5, 12:37:22
        
        Ok (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Sep 5, 12:55:52
        
        ralph (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Sep 5, 12:38:56
- Because they are rapists (n/m) (General Chat) - Dirty Delia, Sep 5, 12:24:11
- are you a psycologist? (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Sep 5, 12:18:25

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