This works fine 99% of the time. However, sometimes my wife will be there. She never presses the button (because she’s ADHD and always forgets), but stands nice and close. A pile of pedestrians will mill around, the lights will change, and the walk signal will stay red! Someone will then annoyedly step in and press the button approximately 20 times while everyone waits for another light cycle to complete.
Her other trick is to enter an elevator and press no buttons. Eventually the lift will go somewhere, but she is often surprised at the destination!
- Please press
- Wait for green
However others have no indicator or sound. To make things even more confusing is the pedestrian crossings can also be programmed to happen automatically at peak times with no button press, but absolutely need a button press outside of peak hour.
At least that's the way it is here in NZ, and when I've been in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane I haven't obviously noticed a general difference to here in NZ (there are particular crossings that are sometimes a bit different, i.e. you never need to press, but)...
Feedback would obviously solve (or at least alleviate) the problem I mentioned. It would, however, be much less amusing.
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Also, my wife is the same.
downsides:
- inconvenience (like if my hands are in my pocket)
- exposure to illness transmission via increased contact with unknown but certainly dirty surface area (assuming touch is required)
- energy expenditure (if its not immediately next to you, or you have a disability)
In Australia, they all do have big buttons.
You're going to touch traces of a million other people's gender fluids on every single other thing you touch during your errand. Germophobia is very selective.
Sincerely, you might be on to something here.
Are your fingers OK?
:)
Yeah, it's not much. In any other circumstance I press the dang button.