Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar. |
It counts down the time until the steady don't walk comes up. This is another way for people crossing the road to know how much time they have. |
It's not wrong having it the old way. We can't and we aren't going to go out and retrofit everyone we have. We have to wait until there is a maintenance issue or upgrade. |
We've been putting them in for about a year and a half now. It's the new state standard. Eventually all signals will be like that. We've put in a hundred in our division. |