{"id":383703086,"date":"2017-02-28T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=383703086"},"modified":"2017-02-28T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:11:26","slug":"do-pedestrian-buttons-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=383703086","title":{"rendered":"Do pedestrian buttons actually work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via OntarioTrafficman<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nExplaining why some pedestrian buttons don&#8217;t seem to work<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why some pedestrian buttons don&#039;t seem to work\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jn__NOYSdhc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAt a typical intersection between a main street and a side street, the pedestrian signal along the main street defaults to walk, so it doesn\u2019t matter whether or not anyone presses the button.<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Not around here they don&#8217;t and that irks me. Watch the video to see a better way to make Ped buttons work. Something the article failed to mention by requiring the ped button to be always pushed before the green phase has started and\/or requiring a mandatory 90 second &#8220;pre-queue&#8221; before a pedestrian can start walking DOT is actually encouraging unsafe crossings. &#8220;must be programmed to minimize delay, which will increase compliance.&#8221; (https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20170120183303614)]<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7hLYJGaBZ7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/03\/do-pedestrian-buttons-actually-work\/\">Do pedestrian buttons actually&nbsp;work?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Do pedestrian buttons actually&nbsp;work?&#8221; &#8212; Ontario Traffic Man\" src=\"https:\/\/ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/03\/do-pedestrian-buttons-actually-work\/embed\/#?secret=Ger3GxWsYB#?secret=7hLYJGaBZ7\" data-secret=\"7hLYJGaBZ7\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via OntarioTrafficman &#8230; Explaining why some pedestrian buttons don&#8217;t seem to work At a typical intersection between a main street and a side street, the pedestrian signal along the main street defaults to walk, so it doesn\u2019t matter whether or not anyone presses the button. [B&#8217; Spokes: Not around here they don&#8217;t and that irks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=383703086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do pedestrian buttons actually work?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383703086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383703086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383703086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383703086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383703086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383703086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383703086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}