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Putting the Butt in "Button"

For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button

The city deactivated most of the pedestrian buttons long ago with the emergence of computer-controlled traffic signals, even as an unwitting public continued to push on, according to city Department of Transportation officials. More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that still exist function essentially as mechanical placebos, city figures show. Any benefit from them is only imagined.

Maybe today is just a day for reporting cold, cynical truth...

* Ray, 3/02/2004 01:53:14 PM

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