General Chat

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay.

I have a question for you................... :-)


Now, when you are waiting at the pedestrian crossing and waiting for the lights
to go green and say walk, do you sometimes, cross if the is no traffic either way?

Or do you wait until the official light to cross?


Take gentle care all
Best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Hello Elizabeth :-)

It depends. If there is a child waiting to cross, I always wait until the light has changed. So that they know you don't 'take a chance'. Also depends on whether there is clear vision of what might be coming or not.

Same as Rose. We know the sequence of the one we use regularly so don't always wait for the light to go green when it is due to do so. However, we never cross before the green man if there is a child there. It does annoy me when I am waiting because of said child and the parent runs across the road with it before the green man appears. I would also wait if there was a blind person with a guide dog.

same as Rose :-)

As an old'un with a reasonable sense of anticipation of traffic movement, I on my own would make my way across if the volume of traffic is low. however if others are with me, I'd use the buttons, and wait for the lights......


as a motorist,.it DOES annoy me if someone pushes the button, and then makes their way across, thus causing the traffic to stop at an empty crossing......

I always wait because I used to get angry at all those running across the road against the lights when I was teaching my children how to cross a road. :-(

Not sure why some unfortunate individual was killed while allegedly walking along the M25.

I hate it when you have to stand in the rain waiting for ages for the green man. It should be much quicker to stop the traffic.

we always wait for the green man now as hubby shuffles very slowly across the road .

The light often goes out too before he has made it across

The answer to your heading Elizabeth, is "where the hell did that come from?""

I usually cross if the road if it seems clear - as far as I know, pedestrians are always within the criminal law whatever they do, with the possible exception being motorways?

happy days

i wait till go
i darnt before as if im in a stumble down the street day,i would prob get knocked down,but i do hate if im part across an lights flash the amount of cars that drive past me

Car drivers are as keen to avoid knocking down innocent pedestrians as pedestrians are to avoid such collisions. I think!

Let both ‘protagonists’ work sensibly together for the mutual enjoyment of our busy roads.

Dizzi, if you are still crossing while the lights start to flash then you still have "Right of way!"

I would say an emphatic "No"

if the light is red, you(the driver) stops.....red and amber stop.........if its is flashing amber and no one on the crossing, you can proceed

You lucky lot! None of you have cyclists in your area ;-)

Ah yes - cyclists. The cause of all our transport & wellbeing problems.

It is their inability to understand traffic lights that I was commenting on.

Yes I do feel soo guilty if I push the button and then there is a big break the traffic flow, I cross and then hear the beeping and a car having to stop! :-(

Is that the crossing beeping or the car? :-S