Don’t Get Cross

Don’t Get Cross was Originally Posted on September 17, 2011 by lavarock

It has come to my attention that New York still has buttons at major intersections. You know the ones, PRESS TO CROSS STREET.

Each day, millions of people push the buttons and sooner or later the lights change, allowing them to cross the street. Millions of pushes a day. Millions.

The story can now be told. Most of those buttons don’t work and have not for a decade or more. Of the 3200 of them, 2500 have been disabled after computer-controlled lights were enabled.

Is it evil for the city to leave them there? Well, they say it costs $300-$400 to remove each one and that adds up to a million dollars.

They also say that if the buttons worked now-a-days in the city, cars would never move with the constant people traffic.

In direct opposition to this, on the south end of the business section of Kailua-Kona, along the ocean in front of Bongo Ben’s, there is a push button. When people actually push the button to cross the streen, lights embeded in the roadway flash and cars come to a screeching halt, allowing people to cross.

Unfortunately, many people just walk across without pushing the button, which is dangerous.

So unlike New Yorkers, here you are welcome t opush the button and watch it work!