[icegreentea]

Toronto recently setup a series of really obnoxious lights where lights in one direction (these are only at intersections of a major and much more minor street, and usually only during off hours) will only change if either the car presence sensor, or the pedestrian button is hit. Now, this is annoying enough as it is, but what makes it worse, is that the countdown on the pedestrian lights keep counting down as if normal.

So, let's say your tired, or really drunk at say midnight. You wait at the light waiting to cross a major road. You see the light count down from 14 or whatever down to 0... and then it stays red! It just starts a whole new traffic cycle until some car comes along, or you remember to hit the damn button.

Worse design ever. Drunk icegreentea has probably tried to rip disassemble one of those boxes with trusty multitool more than once.