High-tech solution for crosswalk delays

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SURREY (NEWS1130) – Few things are more frustrating than stopping your car at a pedestrian controlled crosswalk, even though and there is no one crossing the street.

But now the City of Surrey has come up with a high-tech solution to this road-rage inducing problem.

Councillor Marvin Hunt has had it happen to him.  “Often when you’re driving, someone will push the button on a crosswalk or they get across quickly and you’re sitting there frustrated with this amber light flashing so you can’t go across the crosswalk.”

The city has come up with the solution of motion detectors.  “The light will kick over as soon as they get over to the other side of the street.  It will automatically begin to change to keep traffic going.”

Currently the idea is being tested at a crosswalk on 24th Avenue at 153rd Street.  “We also have a fair amount of seniors, so we want to be able to make sure they safely get to the other side.”

According to Hunt, it’s the first of its kind in Canada.

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