'Countdown' crossing at Royal Parade
A NEW type of crossing is up and running on Royal Parade.
The signals, next to the Big Screen, were installed this week and count down to show pedestrians exactly how long they have to cross the road.
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A green man still lights up when it is safe to cross, with a countdown before the red man appears to let people know they should clear the crossing.
Similar signals have been successfully trialled in London and these are the first of their kind outside the capital.
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The changes come after 88-year-old Hazel Edgerton was hit by a lorry and killed at the crossing in 2010, with Judge Francis Gilbert QC naming the stretch of road as "a very hazardous junction for pedestrians".
Comments
by iamajc
Sunday, December 16 2012, 10:48PM
“That underpass always had a smell of stale urine too, maybe that's what your missing charlie don't worry though you can go into any multistory car park stairway close your eyes imagine the mosaics and you'll be there...;-)”
by CharlieDodd
Sunday, December 16 2012, 10:28PM
“..Heyhey said- 'When I came to live here a long time ago I thought the underpass there was lovely- beautiful mosaics if I remember right'..
Yes, google 'Royal Parade murals' to see pictures of what Evan's and his lefty labour comrades destroyed. Maybe in years to come TV's Time Team will dig 'em up..;)”
by heyheyhey
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:47PM
“leeroymeboy.......fair enough....its all coming back to me now. I do think, however, that rose tinted specs have their uses!”
by iamajc
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:15PM
“by mcspredder
"There should be a corresponding repeater visible to the traffic so they know when to go without waiting to see the pedestrian on the kerb start to run!"
That would be the amber light then...
Highway code also states rule 198
Give way to anyone still crossing after the signal for vehicles has changed to green. This advice applies to all crossings.”
by leeroymeboy
Sunday, December 16 2012, 9:03PM
“What rose tinted glasses you have. You don't remember the chipped mosaics then, or the white lightning tramps either?
My experience of count down timers ha been fab. They're not just visual (queue moaning Minnie visually impaired argument), but tick down audibly and faster and faster the closer to zero they get.”
by heyheyhey
Sunday, December 16 2012, 8:39PM
“When I came to live here a long time ago I thought the underpass there was lovely- beautiful mosaics if I remember right. This really is a town so ashamed of itself. Any heritage is wrecked-then some bright spark thinks it could be capital of culture. No offence, but, come on? Maybe if you reversed 75% of local authority decisions made in the last 10 years.”
by DoctorT
Sunday, December 16 2012, 5:53PM
“@mcspredder - Alternatively, stopping on a red light should be optional for drivers, as it is with pedestrians!"
Sadly this seems to be the case already at most lights in Plymouth.”
by CharlieDodd
Sunday, December 16 2012, 5:05PM
“There was another headline recently about the council being up to its neck in debt, maybe they ought to bring in Carol Vorderman to show them how to do their sums..:)”
by CharlieDodd
Sunday, December 16 2012, 3:56PM
“..Headline-'Countdown crossing'..
and here's the countdown conundrum (clue: it relates to the council)-
U-S-E-L-S-E-S”
by jaygeek1
Sunday, December 16 2012, 8:26AM
“Another justification of someone having a job...............what a waste of money.
Spoon feeding the public this kind of information...........if they do not know how to cross a road safely then they should not be allowed out on their own.”