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Date: 2005-05-20 03:43 am (UTC)Hmm, sounds like you lump them all together... In which case, a pelican crossing is a type of crosswalk. Our crossings all have animal names - pelican (pedestrian light-co(a)ntrolled,) puffin (pedestrian user-f(f)riendly intelligent,) toucan (two-can) and zebra (black and white stripes on the road, the one that started the trend.) Oh, and apparently ones for horses are called pegasus.
Pelican crossings are the closest to the generic crosswalk with lights I think - press the button, wait for the red standing man to go out and the green walking man to come on, cross, but don't start crossing if the green man is flashing (which it does to indicate that soon the light will go red and traffic will be able to move again.) And of course many of them make noises (the ones near my old school sounded like a UFO or something.) I'd never really thought of the 'which is beeping' problem because here there's much less of a tendancy to have them at crossroads. If you've got two nearby it's more likely because one takes you to the middle of the road, another to the other side. And where there are a few round a crossroad they tend to be sufficiently spaced out there you can hear whether yours is crossing.