I think the reason is to make you look in the traffic direction

rather than stare straight ahead and start walking on green without checking if someones running the light.

Posted By: megson on September 5th 2007 at 12:31:29

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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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