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Downtown Everett crosswalk signal broke mid-crossing and I almost got hit
I was crossing Hewitt and Broadway last Tuesday when the walk signal just stopped working halfway through. The countdown froze at 8 seconds and then went blank, so I had to jog across while a pickup was already creeping into the intersection. I reported it to the city public works line on my phone right after, and they said they'd send someone by Wednesday. Has anyone else had a pedestrian signal glitch out like that downtown? Did they actually fix it or just ignore it?
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lee7228d ago
Yeah, that countdown freezing at 8 seconds happened to me on Pacific and Everett Ave last month. I had to literally sprint across and a bus laid on its horn - they definitely don't fix these things in a hurry.
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piper_burns28d ago
Oh COME ON. You nearly got hit because you decided to run instead of just waiting for the next cycle? That's on you, not the equipment. Pedestrians always assume the countdown is a promise from the city or something. It's just a pretty little timer that's probably running on the same cheap circuit board as everything else in this town. I see people at that intersection all the time who start booking it at 5 seconds like they're in the Olympics. Just wait the extra 45 seconds for the light to change again. Your life isn't worth proving a point about a broken timer. And that bus driver? They probably honked because you were being reckless, not because the countdown froze.
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veram9928d ago
Ugh I had the same thing happen at 5th and Main a few weeks ago. I just stopped halfway, stepped back onto the curb, and let the driver go. Yeah it was annoying but I wasn't about to test if the timer was telling the truth or not. Now I just ignore the countdown and watch the actual cars and lights instead. Has anyone else switched to just watching traffic patterns instead of trusting the numbers?
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