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Why not call them what they are, Pedestrian crossings? And where I am, we use symbols. Doesn't help, as they are often ignored.
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Same, symbols here. Where I've seen writing its usually done in red for don't and green for do. Most traffic signals are a combination of symbolism and type with both meaning the same thing. In fact most are just symbolic.
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stitch626 wrote::confused:
Why not call them what they are, Pedestrian crossings? And where I am, we use symbols. Doesn't help, as they are often ignored.
"Pedestrian crossing" could cover any one of half a dozen different designs - the pelican is a specific type of crossing.
Tyyr wrote:Same, symbols here. Where I've seen writing its usually done in red for don't and green for do. Most traffic signals are a combination of symbolism and type with both meaning the same thing. In fact most are just symbolic.
Fair enough. Most of the ones I've seen from the US have been the written version.
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Captain Seafort wrote:"Pedestrian crossing" could cover any one of half a dozen different designs - the pelican is a specific type of crossing.
I guess thats fair.
Captain Seafort wrote:Most of the ones I've seen from the US have been the written version.
Those are usually the older ones. I think we have maybe two in the city we live in. The rest are symbols.

And neither one is followed by practically anyone.
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See, you guys are all screwy. A "pelican" is a member of a genus of fairly large, fish-eating shorebirds.

And we didn't change things around to be lazy. We changed things around for both common sense, and for the express purpose - as in driving on the right - of distancing ourselves from you guys.
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Reliant121 wrote:Traitors to the motherland!
OK. I can live with that.
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Reliant121 wrote:Traitors to the motherland!
Well I'm mostly German so I have to say your gender's wrong but whatever floats your tea drinking boat.
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To be fair, I'm mostly dutch with a quarter of welsh drifting around the somewhat weak arteries of mine.
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where I live the sines are pretty much 50/50 words and symbols, but their all color coded.
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Helpful for the colourblind, isnt it? :P
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Great. In the space of three pages we've gone from arguing combat ranges in Star Trek, to discussing dialects, to talking about different road signs.
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Reliant121 wrote:Helpful for the colourblind, isnt it? :P
well it's either green or white and red so it's not like the colors are even close in shade either.
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Reliant121 wrote:They actually work rather well, traffic often flows faster on roundabouts than traffic lights. Unless its a really really major junction, where traffic lights are a lot easier.
I agree.

Why in United Kingdom they call the pedestrian crossings with animal names?
The zebra i understand it but the others, not that much.
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