Comment 88723

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted May 14, 2013 at 13:56:49 in reply to Comment 88721

I think that one of Solomon's arguments was that the amber light PXOs are so rare that motorists don't know what they are, and so don't yield to pedestrians. This is a bizarre Catch-22 where the "official" solution is so uncommon as to be unuseable!

That is why they opted for pedestrian activated traffic lights: motorists know they are supposed to stop for a red light (the fact that the lights are often programmed with "minimal pedestrian service" requiring pedestrians to wait a very long time is yet another issue).

In western Canada there are pedestrian activated traffic lights (with fast response times) at particularly dangerous locations in addition to ubiquitous standard signs-and-painted-lines.

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