When pushing the pedestrian button works and when it doesn't | SMH

Nigel Gladstone of The Sydney Morning Herald answers: When pushing the pedestrian button works and when it doesn't.

(The answer is it doesn't work in the CBD during the day).

My quote:

Monetizing the beg button

Professor David Levinson from the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney said traffic signals in the city should be shifted to be more pedestrian friendly to encourage more walking.

"Traffic signals give priority to motor vehicles over pedestrians. This inequality undermines many of the stated goals of transport, health and environment policy," Professor Levinson said.

"Sydney uses adaptive signals so that they're designed to maximise the throughput for cars and so they'll extend the green light for cars but that results in there being more 'don't walk' time for pedestrians."