Walking in Waterloo Region

[Chris]

Also, every time I hit these beg buttons I really wish the traffic engineers had the experience of using them and the frustration of standing in the heat, cold or rain while waiting for the signals to cycle back around to your legal time to cross. I think if they experienced this themselves, they would change the system.

Even without the beg buttons, you would still need to stand in the heat, cold or rain (or plain ordinary weather) to wait for the next green cycle, eliminating the buttons would not give you the ability to (legally) cross immediately.

Sure it would in situations when you get there just a little late. Walk up to an intersection as the light is changing. If you don't hit the pedestrian crossing button before the light changes to green in your direction, you can't cross as the don't walk sign doesn't change due to no one hitting button. If they beg button was removed and you show up a few seconds into the green light the walk sign would automatically be on and you could proceed. When someone gets to one of these intersections with time to cross but the don't walk is on due to the beg button it really sucks.