TomBrown

What people don't seem to understand is that these lights will be controlled by pedestrians. The lights will remain green until a pedestrian pushes a button, the pedestrian walks when he/she gets the signal to cross, then the traffic lights turn green again. The system seems to work quite well in London, New York and other large cities.

But, and this is a big but, the number of lights they are putting up on 2nd Road and Beach Road seem to be overkill - there are far too many of them. Probably vested interests again. I can imagine the conversation in City Hall: "Put one up next to my brother's shop, so people can get to it easily", or "I need one in front of my hotel". In other countries they are mostly at road junctions, or outside schools (which is where they should be). I reckon the ones we have here will either cause massive jams, or will be totally ignored by the local drivers (both Thai and farang), and pedestrians will still have to run for their lives...