[identity0]

That article you posted is just stupid. Yes, maybe now people won't be pressing buttons, but COVID won't be around forever. In a few months/years/whatever the pedestrian button will still be around, people will still press them, and they will still be a valid solution to traffic. The article also says:

> These buttons have long been decried and criticized by advocates for walking, anyway. The buttons’ purpose is less to keep people safe than to reinforce the primacy of cars on the street by forcing people who want to cross a street to “beg” for a walk signal.

This makes it sound like buttons are some kind of implement of the bourgeoise, used to "reinforce the primacy of cars" and keep the pedestrians powerless. In reality, whether pedestrians like it or not, cars are primary. The roads literally exist for cars. As a pedestrian, I would do the very difficult task of pressing a button, if it meant that as a driver I could have less traffic and hit less red lights.

[throwaheyy]

Yes, I stopped reading when I got to this:

> Typically, a person expects the signal to show walk, then flashing don’t walk, then solid don’t walk. Signals follow a familiar pattern and people embed that pattern in their muscle memory. Adaptive signals, however, can flip from walk to don’t walk to walk again

That simply doesn't happen, adaptive or not.