To wish that people would understand and respect Pelican Crossings?

[Blu]

Drivers do not seem to understand or care that while the amber light is flashing any pedestrians wishing to cross, or actually crossing, have right of way.

On Friday night the light was flashing, several pedestrians were still crossing, including from the other side of the central island, and it was raining (so doubly inconsiderate to make pedestrians wait on the central island). The bus on the inside lane actually started edging through the pedestrians, scattering them out of the way, and the driver behind me was hooting me. I made flshing signs with my hands in my mirror and got more hooting and she would down her wondow and shouted abuse! The hooting happens all the time.

When I am a pedestrian it drives me mad when cars start zooming through as soon as the flashing amber starts.

Do people generally understand who has right of way on a Pelican Crossing?

Cherry most new crossings now a puffin crossings where the red and green man are next to the button pedestrians press rather than up high.

I get frustrated by the people who stand at a crossing without pressing the button, but are still waiting for the lights to change. This happened to me twice this morning on my cycle ride to work. On both occasions, the person waiting was standing right by the button, so I had to say excuse me, so I could reach it.

*thecook8 you devil you.

the etymology is correct, but they spell it pelican to avoid making up a new word.
the Toucan crossing is the one where it provides for cycles as well as pedestrians to cross - it comes from "two can cross"

eglu - that too. they kept with the bird theme.
bit dangerous with all those zebras around.

your description reminds me a bit og the crossing outside victoria centre in nottingham.
it's changed now, but it used to be a 3 way pelican, with a central island (to allow for the 3 ways to join), and it basically meant every single person in the world crossed there at any one point (busiest thoroughfare in europe).
the green man was on for aaaaaagse, and on a saturday, there were sooo many people crossing that after a couple of minutes after going back to red man, traffic would have to start moving across.
though, to be fair to them, they did always wait till most of the people had gone and there were just a couple of chancers starting to cross on their own.