Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some cases the walk signals are pre-programmed to work anyway," says Burgess. In these instances, pressing the button accomplishes nothing At other intersections, however, burgess claims that pressing the corsswalk button means "the difference between the light ever turning...
Burgess believes that Cambridge pedestrains have a harder time crossing streets than their Boston counterparts." The streets are narrower, and [Cambridge allows] traffic to turn across a walk. there is less of that in Boston." If cars are permitted to turn gained total cross-walk hegemony...
Heroic Professor of Classical Greek and Comparitive Literature Gregory Nagy is concerned with the socio-cultural implications of cross-walk wars. "If the signal is a defiant stopping humanoid in red and a cheerful walking humanoid in green, then I would not [press the button]," says Nagy. "There is not enough semiotic power," Semiotic power?" Anyone who took Heroes would know what I mean...
Nagy's analysis of cross-walk semiology was less than interesting to a group of first-years who, sitting in the Union, concerned themselves with cross walk button epistemiology. Does pressing the damn thing make the light change any faster? Andy T. Hu '97 claims that the buttons never work. "it's big lie the government is trying to feed us and we're sick of it," says Hu. "A time will come when people will cross and the street whenever they please. That time...
...buttons really work? FM put the crosswalk button at the intersection of Throwbridge and Harvard streets the test. The results? Careful research has shown that pressing this button means the difference between getting a walk signal and waiting eternally...