Does repeatedly pressing the button have any effect on the speed the lights change, and why when i have right of way, do drivers of BMW, Audi, and Renault Lagunas always feel the need to skid to a halt and shout, thats a pedestrian crossing you F..kING W..k.r , and i dont think they meant walker.

Its because very few drivers on the roads know what the hell they're doing.

and why when i have right of way, do drivers of BMW, Audi, and Renault Lagunas always feel the need to skid to a halt and shout, thats a pedestrian crossing you F..kING W..k.r , and i dont think they meant walker.

I can honestly say I've never had that

As for the question – I don't believe it makes a difference

makes no difference, you'll just wear out the button quicker then one day it won't work and it'll all be your fault.

The thing I always wonder about pedestrian crossings… when you press the button, why does it wait for ages before the lights actually change?

If they've only just changed back then fair enough, but if they haven't, what's the point of waiting? Surely a person waiting is more likely to just try to cross anyway, so risking being run over or annoying drivers when the light changes but they crossed ages ago…

The thing I always wonder about pedestrian crossings… when you press the button, why does it wait for ages before the lights actually change?

probably because most of them have motion/traffic sensors and are waiting for a gap. If none comes then it changes after a predefined time?*

*note: a guess. never stopped anyone on the internet before.

Does repeatedly pressing the button have any effect on the speed the lights change

Yes – definitely.

Although have to keep stabbing it in rapid succession. If you do it often enough, you will find that the lights suddenly change.

Try it sometime.

The thing I always wonder about pedestrian crossings… when you press the button, why does it wait for ages before the lights actually change?

Can't remember where I heard it but I believe it's so that groups of peds can cross at the same time – ie waiting for a crowd

And why does no one in London town press the button???????????????

Ever felt the underneath of the box the button sits in? It moves about to let blind people know to cross

It moves about to let blind people know to cross

I don't believe a word of that. But I'm definitely going find out if it's true.

I might stop on the way to work tomorrow and get out of my car just to press the button and have a feel.

Ernie, don't, no point. It's broken.

Had to google to find out what a Pegasus crossing is.

Never seen one before.

Are there a lot of horses round your way then?

The blind thing is true. We order signal boxes with a rotating knurled cone on the underside.

what happpened to the beeping noise for blind people?

I thought Pegasus crossing was a bridge on the River Orne…

And why does no one in London town press the button

It is the same everywhere – people just stand there without pressing, almost like they are above pressing a button. Weird.

Its because very few drivers on the roads know what the hell they're doing.

Yep, round here, an orange flashing light means: get the revs up to about 8000, and drop the clutch like you're on pole position the very instant my rear foot makes it to the pavement…I'm looking at you, Mr Clio driver this morning…

Maybe I'm just prejudice, but I don't think blind people should be riding horses in busy traffic.

Ever felt the underneath of the box the button sits in?

Three bits of second hand chewing gum and something sticky.

And why does no one in London town press the button???????????????

'Cos by the time it changes the chances are they'll have legged it across the road anyway. Hence why I think it's silly that you have to stand there for ages!

what happpened to the beeping noise for blind people?

Beeping is for blind people, the button thingy is for blind & deaf people I guess…

According to Wikipedia:

After requesting to cross (by pressing a button) a kerb-side detector monitors the pedestrian's continued presence at the crossing. Should the pedestrian decide to cross prematurely, walk away from the crossing, or wait outside the detection area, the pedestrian's request to cross could be automatically cancelled so traffic is not halted unnecessarily.

— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_crossing

So you might as well press the button anyway, because if you leg it then it will cancel.

Should the pedestrian decide to cross prematurely, walk away from the crossing, or wait outside the detection area, the pedestrian's request to cross could be automatically cancelled

Outside the detection area ? WTF – we now have pedestrian crossings who are stroppy and get the hump ?

"Sorry mate, you stepped outside 'the detection area'. Your request to cross has been cancelled"

ffs ……….. bleedin' jobsworths

Well you can't expect to just go walking about like you have some kind of independent will y'know.

Outside the detection area ? WTF – we now have pedestrian crossings who are stroppy and get the hump ?

"Sorry mate, you stepped outside 'the detection area'. Your request to cross has been cancelled"

ffs ……….. bleedin' jobsworths

bet your the first to moan about all the traffic congestion too, if you decide to cross before you're supposed too, you're ped crossing time gets cancelled and traffic spends less time queuing, quit whining!

Bleeping crossings are now being phased out as the bleeping annoys neighbours and if theira an island in the middle with two crosssings seperately operated, a blind person may cross by mistake and become a pizza on a BMW.

Pegasus crossings have the buttons about 6 foot up the pole, and i once told a woman who asked, they where for tall people, so they didnt have to bend down.

are now being phased out as the bleeping annoys neighbours

……. and of course the sound of cars smacking into blind people isn't quite so annoying.

The little green man who comes on, why cant we have him with some sort of ray gun as in a martian alien,and any car that fails to stop,he fires his gun and theyre vapourised.