Take a good look at this picture? Anything peculiar ?
Yes, indeed pedestrians can cross in diagonal if they so please :)
A regular traffic light has 2 or 2.5 phases:
Phase 1 -> Axis N-S (forward and right turn or left respectively )
Phase 2 -> Axis E-W (forward and left turn or left respectively )
Half of phase for left turns
One problem with this model is that if it is busy (and Japan is VERY busy :) right turn is very difficult especially if you do not have red-right hand turn (or left hand turn as it would be here).
So their solution is to have 3 phases:
1. N-S (forward and reserved left turn, no pdestrians)
2. E-W (forward and reserved left turn, no pedestrians )
3. pedestrians only
Since they have only 1/3 of the time instead of roughly 1/2 they can also cross diagonally :)
I hope that this post was not to boring, it took me a little time to figure out the logic. In fact I climbed in the tower for this explicit purpose.
2 comments:
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Uite alte poze din Japonia.
Bog
No, no, no, there is only one reason for crossing in diagonal.
Japanese engineers are so smart and human.
They took in account the drunk and unhappy
japanese wife. So, if she wants to cross the street, she "takes" left until she arrives in the middle. After that " mai trage o dusca" :-) and she "takes" right. Finaly she makes it, she crosses the street. This is the hi-tech idea of life.:-)The technology must help also, unhappy sushi and rice eaters who wait for their husbands to come back from work, at midnight.And make them some food. After that, to take a good nap. Hrrrr..hrrrr....hrrrr..
:-)
Matane
Teddy-san
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