Upgrade what?
I'm a bit perplexed by word that Philadelphia is considering implementing pedestrian count-down timers, which alert folks to the amount of time before the light changes, at its cross-walks. This is handy technology, but the article's opening sentence captures my confusion:
A Philadelphia City Council member wants to add "pedestrian countdown timers" to augment those blinking walk and don't walk icons at city intersections.Now I don't know about you, but I walk almost everywhere I go, other than the commute to work, and, um, 95% of the intersections that I encounter don't have any walk signs at all right now . . . ?
posted by ACM at 3:18 PM
4 Comments:
If you are going to do this, you should do what they do in a lot of European Countries, and put in faint beeps that get quicker when the light is about to turn red. This lets those with hearing disabilities cross safely.
yeah, I always liked the bird-chirping intersections in Berkeley, CA, as well...
Councilwoman "Do Nothing" Donna Miller is behind this; she's probably a bit confused about what the City current has.
well, to be fair, anonymous, they made explicit reference to the Franklin Parkway, which probably does have walk signals, and where there are several large buildings filled with senior citizens and other residents who could use the extra assistance getting across the street. I was mostly being a wise-akre...
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