for context there a street behind me that one of these should be the beg button for crossing.
Fuck it, push em all.
Most of the beg buttons downtown in the shithole I live in do nothing but ‘wait!’.
The downtown crosswalk signals and the traffic lights are automatic. They just cycle regardless if anyone is there. Further out into the suburbs/exurbs the crosswalk signals don’t work unless you push the button. I think damn near all the crosswalks have the beep thing for our visually impaired residents.
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Oh, America is catching up. That traffic light system seems about where we were with x-ways in 1969.
Don’t worry, at this rate, you should reach a sensible and effective pedestrian road crossing system in about 50 years!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
do these do anything
In my town, the lights are on a timer until 6pm. The beg buttons only work after 6pm
There is a literal highway that splits around the town though, so it kinda makes sense that they’re on a timer otherwise you’d have people being assholes in stop/start.
Main Street is pedestrian priority at least, so all traffic yields at crosswalks
Depends on who configured the intersection
in my town they just reveal whether or not the cycle has allowed you to cross. they could remove the buttons completely and it would be more efficient. death 2 amerikkka
yes, sometimes no. depends on the intersection and how it’s programmed. It’s pretty easy to tell in practice.
for example, at most crossings in my city if the button is not pressed the pedestrian signal will not change from “don’t walk” at the next signal cycle. and the signal might never cycle if the button is not pressed and there are no cars waiting at the Red.
Just call it in to the city, they’ll fix it, otherwise they’ll be out of ADA compliance edit: more than they already are I mean (no truncated domes on the ramp)
ADA requires those? if that’s so then our compliance is piss poor lol.
Yeh it’s a “detectable warning” - indicates where the sidewalk ends, essentially.
I suspect standard practice is to bring sidewalks up to spec as they’re updated. otherwise it could be a heavy burden on city budgets.
You got it! TLDR the usual process is a twisted web - but if someone raises enough hell about it they’ll find the funds.
In the US - especially the last infrastructure act (weak as it was) - there’s a prioritization of accessibility - so that includes updates to street infrastructure, public spaces, parks etc. It gets to be a pain depending on how much red tape is around “what funding gets allocated for what project type?” - usually based on the tax base and the user base. Cities can reliably fund small projects in their capital plans and should have the specific knowledge of current conditions to alter those plans accordingly (ie if something breaks, or if enough people raise hell and things need to get addressed quicker) but that takes time and has pretty rigid guard rails wrt available funds from the tax base.
From there it’s a mess of whether counties/parishes, regions, states, federal, private (🤮) foot the bill, and what sort of process you go through to get those funds - typically processes, like grants, are competitive with other municipalities - so it pays to regionalize. The coordination takes time but makes you more competitive cost-benefit-wise.)
And all of that is dependent on a low level bureaucrat (
) being aware enough of the problem to pursue those funds. Or if there’s enough money involved (read landowners), higher level bureaucrats ( 
) will get involved sooner, and the solutions will likely be more holistic and grandiose.Exactly. Any nearby improvement that impacts the sidewalk or ramp will be required to bring the corner up to ADA compliance
