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One of the world's most heavily used pedestrian scrambles, the Shibuya Crossing at Hachikō Square in Tokyo. A pedestrian scramble (or exclusive pedestrian interval) is a type of traffic signal movement that temporarily stops all vehicular traffic, thereby allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time.
Shibuya Scramble Crossing (渋谷スクランブル交差点, Shibuya sukuranburu kōsaten), commonly known as Shibuya Crossing, is a popular pedestrian scramble crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. [1] It is located in front of the Shibuya Station Hachikō exit and stops vehicles in all directions to allow pedestrians to inundate the entire ...
A pedestrian scramble in the Chinatown section of Oakland, California, is painted with red-and-yellow colors to signify the colors of the flag of China. [28] [30] Pedestrian crossing sign used in art, University of Bremen campus, Germany. Sometimes, different cities around the world may have similar art concepts for their crosswalks.
Tegelijk groen (Dutch pronunciation: [təɣəˌlɛik ˈxrun]; lit. ' simultaneously green '), commonly translated as all directions green and also known as a bike scramble, [1] is a traffic rule in the Netherlands allowing bicycles to cross designated intersections at the same time from all sides.
A pedestrian wanting to cross would press a button on the beacon pole and be instructed to wait by an illuminated sign near the button. A pedestrian pressing the call button for a Panda crossing. The system allowed for a pause between crossings in order to avoid traffic delays, and so the pedestrian might wait a while before anything happened.
X-way crossing may refer to one of two types of pedestrian crossing: Pedestrian scramble, a crossing which allows pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction; X-way crossing (1960s), an early and short-lived predecessor of the Pelican crossing
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Pedestrian crossings with Belisha beacons had been in use in the UK since the 1930s, originally introduced under Section 18 of the Road Traffic Act, 1934. [8] The Belisha beacon is an upright crossing marking, still required by zebra and parallel crossings in the UK, named after the Minister of Transport in 1934, Leslie Hore-Belisha .