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I hate when the button doesn't even work
Do they ever? You don’t get to control traffic as a random person on the street—for anything that’s not a super low traffic street, mostly in residential areas. Maybe it works like the weight sensors at stop lights, where it doesn’t exactly change the cycle, it just lets the system know not to keep the most heavily trafficked road going?
I’d imagine. I dunno. I just always assumed they did nothing.
In my city there is a T intersection where the top part of the T is a busy road with a traffic light and I once saw some kids pressing the button as a "joke" when they are not even crossing. Usually its always green but if it turns red it causes a huge lineup of cars, especially during rush hour.