WAIT! Rude crosswalk button in Del Mar, CA

This rather rude crosswalk button is at the corner of Camino Del Mar and 15th street in the city of Del Mar California.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• rude
• crosswalk
• del mar
• california

[mrbob952]

whats with all the long comments?? i dont have time to read all that...

[logik316]

This is what happens when traffic engineers design everything inside a computer, without actually having to test their own products in the real world. If that were forced to get out of their cars and walk those intersections, they might see how unnecessarily annoying that thing is.

[exoticcar5482]

@wileyk209zback that would also tell me why the ones in my area go "WAIT. WAIT to cross CLARKSVILLE PIKE from COLUMBIA ROAD" and continues beeping. then, when the light changes, it beeps faster. then, during the pedestrian clearance, the beeping slows down.

[wileyk209zback]

@exoticcar5482 Oh, now I understand. That would explain why one button on the crosswalk goes "CRESCENT. Walk sign is on to cross CRESCENT." and the other goes "Walk sign is on to cross CRESCENT STREET." I could tell right off the bat they were Polara pushbuttons; they have this crosswalk right in front of a high-rise apartment many elderly people live in, so it makes sense (the crosswalk didn't get the Polara buttons until they upgraded the traffic signals to LED in 2003)

[exoticcar5482]

@wileyk209zback its not that its malfunctioning, its just that the device was customized differently. these devices are called navigator APS, made by Polara Engineering. they made it so that the many division chiefs in the US can make it do what they want, so that's why different areas have their navigator APS devices do different things.

[wileyk209zback]

It must've been malfunctioning; we have only one crosswalk button setup like that in our city, and it just goes "WAIT... to cross CRESCENT STREET. WAIT." Then it continues beeping.