Should we press button to cross road? Lots of people don't bother to press the button at pedestrian crossings. Do they know something the rest of us don't? It can seem like the longest two minutes of ...

Don't feel ashamed for feeling paranoid. There are plenty of "placebo buttons" scattered all around New York City. And the UK's pedestrian crossing buttons work in some places but not in others. But ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It takes 38 seconds, give or take a fraction, for the light to change at Targee Street and Venice Avenue in Concord. For those in more of a hurry, behold the pedestrian crossing ...

For many avid pedestrians, pressing the walk button at crossing signals becomes a subconscious routine. But in downtown Houston, transplants from other large cities may find themselves pressing a bare ...

SUPPRESSIO VERI, suggestio falsi. Over the course of many years, without making any great fuss about it, the authorities in New York disabled most of the control buttons that once operated ...