Mixed Signals: Do Chicago's Crosswalk Buttons Actually Work?
Curious City
WBEZ Chicago
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The city’s pushing pedestrian-friendly design, but it’s left one consideration at the curb.
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| 0:00.0 | When were the... |
| 0:03.7 | What school's the... |
| 0:06.0 | Who decides what the next... |
| 0:08.0 | Where's that story? |
| 0:09.3 | Why they keep the look? |
| 0:11.2 | What is this? |
| 0:13.6 | It's a curious city. |
| 0:15.0 | Where WBEZ answers your questions... |
| 0:17.5 | About Chicago, the region, and its people. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm reporter Liz Stanton. |
| 0:22.4 | Our questioner this time is J.R. Kulik, who's got a bone to pick about crossing the street in Chicago. |
| 0:28.6 | Maybe you can sympathize with the story. |
| 0:31.0 | Here it goes. |
| 0:32.4 | One night, he's trying to cross a big, busy intersection at Arthur and Sheridan on the city's far north side. |
| 0:38.3 | It was wet and rainy and cold and hail and all this other kind of stuff going on. |
| 0:43.3 | So I was here that night waiting and I'm pushing the button and I'm like, oh gosh, I'd push it again and then again. |
| 0:48.3 | No dice. |
| 0:50.3 | He figured the crosswalk button was busted. |
| 0:53.3 | And as he got drenched, his anger morphed into curiosity about what might be happening to other Chicago pedestrians out there. |
| 1:00.9 | So he asked us... |
| 1:02.0 | Just wondering if the push-to-walk buttons actually work in the city. |
| 1:07.9 | Fair question. |
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