Posted on 10/07/2025 2:51:40 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
Yes. It's the ultimate aphrodisiac!
Does Pushing The Button At A Crossing Actually Do Anything?
It sure does, it’s gets ya all kinds of nasty cooties. Those buttons are crawling with cooties! Touching something everyone in public touches is big no bueno!
It just records your fingerprint and matches it to the pic they take of you from the intersection camera.
They work just like red light/speeding cameras then. :)
They always seem to work well enough. You push them to get the walk signal, not to make the light change any faster. I’ve also seen them at places where there is no intersection, and pushing them causes a traffic light to stop traffic to let you cross.
I think that maybe people who don’t think the button works have never been at an intersection where they are the only person waiting to cross the street. Usually, every person who comes to the corner pushes the button.
Thanks. I was surprised at some of the comments and thought most people sort of knew this stuff.
There was a nice video i saw on youtube that explained how cameras at intersections affect red light triggering. Cars that overshot the red light and stuck out in the intersection did themselves no favors and best place to stop is right before the intersection to trigger the logic.
Most people think the cameras are there to generate tickets but often they are there for automated traffic control.
Not many pedestrians here in the suburbs. But we do have 4 to 6 lane roads with lots of traffic. And I noticed, when I don’t push the button, the “walk” light never appears.
Drive through big cities like LA, and ya get 400 pounders sashaying across the intersections like they own it, moving so slow the lights turn green and they’re still only half way across as they glare and mean mug the cars at pole position. They’re all looking for big pay days.
They actually used the word “placebo”!?
I’ve been saying that for at least 30 years!
Maybe someone at the NYT heard you say it at a restaurant and copped it.
I have had them talk back when I press more than once.
Something like, ‘One press is sufficient’
Yes, it actually does something... Sheesh.
I believe that.
The buttons in my town and they do work at certain points in the traffic light cycling.
Just like an elevator!
LOL! But probably not, since I’ve never been in NYC,
What I always see with those is that the pedestrian pushes the button and then jaywalks before the light changes. Then there are a whole bunch of cars waiting at an empty crosswalk. Such pedestrians should be hanged from the nearest lamppost.
The one I used today said “Push button or wave at button”
Waving actually worked. I felt mighty stupid and the people driving by were giving me weird looks.
Nope. It’s just a button with a spring behind it. They’re found at crosswalks on very busy streets. Giving people a sense of control and something to do helps cut down on pedestrians getting flattened.
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