Lots of interesting stuff baked into this one. Personally I really enjoy the bitching about the cashier who weighs the vegetables as if slow checkout lines don't exist in the west

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      3 years ago

      Depends on the city you're in, and sometimes the specific intersection. There are a lot that don't do anything at all and are just there to make pedestrians feel better, but there are also some that actually do function.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        There’s one light I go through often on my moped and I will have to hop off, run to the pedestrian button, and run back because the sensor doesn’t detect my moped and that’s the only way to get the light to change 🙃

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          3 years ago

          I would double-check this instead of just listening to me, but I understand that the law for motorcycles is that it's legal to run red lights in those situations, if you do it safely. I would imagine it's similar for mopeds.

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This actually reminds me, there's an intersection that I used to go through regularly that used a weight sensor and didn't have buttons. The sensor was placed in an unintuitive place and sometimes you'd get stuck behind a car that hadn't stopped in the right spot to trigger it, and one time my at the time girlfriend and I sat in a 10+ car line (usually only 2-3 cars max on that road) for like 5 minutes because the person at the front wasn't figuring it out or running it.

          I think one of us got out and had to go talk to them, but it's been like 6 years so my memory could be fuzzy.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      In Helsinki they definitely do. I've sometimes waited for entire minutes at a crossing before realising I hadn't pressed the button, upon which the light turned green very quickly

      There's nothing more annoying than coming to a crossing on a bike and noticing there's no button on the bike lane's side so you have to get off to press it. It's even more annoying if there's a pedestrian on the other side too busy on their phone to see that the button hasn't been pressed yet so you still have to get off :agony-turbo: