Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar.

It's not wrong having it the old way. We can't and we aren't going to go out and retrofit everyone we have. We have to wait until there is a maintenance issue or upgrade.

We've been putting them in for about a year and a half now. It's the new state standard. Eventually all signals will be like that. We've put in a hundred in our division.

It counts down the time until the steady don't walk comes up. This is another way for people crossing the road to know how much time they have.

You see, the longer you put a problem off, the worse it becomes