New Signals To Keep People From Getting Squished By Metro Trains

[editor]

METRO INSTALLS NEW PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC SIGNALS

The safety of pedestrians is as important to METRO as the safety of its passengers.

Recently, the agency began upgrades to traffic signals along METRORail that will make crossing intersections along the line even safer for pedestrians.

This includes replacing 480 pedestrian traffic signals with new countdown pedestrian signals, and the pedestrian push buttons with new ones that flash a red light and beep to acknowledge the request for a walk phase.

[JLWM8609]

Metro started converting their pedestrian signals to countdown style around the same the COH started replacing the pedestrian signals in the downtown, med center, and midtown area with the same.

Edited December 26, 2007 by JLWM8609

[urban909]

i think they are a good idea on any crosswalk...glad METRO has taken this initiative...