{"id":2827,"date":"2010-06-21T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2010-06-21T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:07:34","slug":"southwark-pedestrian-crossing-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"Southwark Pedestrian Crossing Timer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a title=\"BBC - Southwark Countdown Timer\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/10363440.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this report on the BBC today<\/a>. Southwark is trialling a countdown timer system near the tube station, and a total of eight busy crossings across London will also be involved in the trial.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2828\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2828 lazyload\" title=\"Crossing Timer In Southwark\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/southwark_timer.jpg\" alt=\"Crossing Timer In Southwark\" width=\"180\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/199;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossing Timer In Southwark<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Half of me thinks it is a good idea. According to the BBC report, Transport for London (TfL) found that half of pedestrians crossed even after the red man appeared. I&#8217;m not surprised &#8211; it&#8217;s the same here in Nottingham (only yesterday I was with a pupil on a lesson, and at the top of Huntingdon Street two Neanderthals\u00a0and\u00a0a Neanderthaless &#8211; with a very small child &#8211; waited at a crossing, and after the red man came on and the lights had gone to amber they just walked across in front of us (the one holding the kid&#8217;s hand had his face buried in a mobile phone &#8211; probably trying to work out what it was)).<\/p>\n<p>But the other half of me thinks it will have little effect. A bit like those &#8220;YOUR SPEED&#8221; displays, I suspect that initially people might take heed, but if the timers\u00a0become prevalent then people will just ignore them the same as they do for the red man.<\/p>\n<p>It would make far more sense (and make far more money) if people were pulled up for jaywalking! You can&#8217;t just keep widening the goalposts to cater for the growing stupidity of the general public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this report on the BBC today. Southwark is trialling a countdown timer system near the tube station, and a total of eight busy crossings across London will also be involved in the trial. Half of me thinks it is a good idea. According to the BBC report, Transport for London (TfL) found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}