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On 16/10/2012 5:18 PM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> On 10/14/2012 4:07 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
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>> That's sort of like pressing the button for the cross walk signal,
>> except those sometimes work.

>
> They always work, you just don't understand how they're designed to
> work. Pressing the button doesn't command the signal to turn on the Walk
> light RIGHT NOW, it tells it to turn on the Walk light when the signal
> next cycles to giving that direction the green light. So it all depends
> on timing.


It depends on the location. Some of them do change the lights almost
right away. Others....... not so much.