Not everyone pays attention to those crosswalk signs, some do have those countdown timers now though but even then I suspect people don't realize it.

naturalyshocked, I don't think this will help people who don't notice the light has changed. Usually they're too caught up with their cell phones or other gizmos. Also you can usually see the cross-traffic signals to anticipate when the signal will change, but I'm not sure many pay attention to that either. I don't think this is being conservative, I just don't see how this could make things better when the people who this is supposed to help weren't likely paying attention to begin with. I'd rather have better public transport to get some people off the roads than spend money on new traffic signals (unless it's for an upgrade to LED lights).

This is an awful idea.. Can you imagine the amount of red light related accidents that would happen with these lights? Yeah, I know, you're supposed to make sure the intersection is clear before going, but seriously now, I think you'd find that there are a lot of people who don't do that and now if they're given a countdown for when to step on the pedal... ugh.

A more useful thing would perhaps be a green/yellow timer.

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This is just tremendous.

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Josh, you're tremendous.

Josh and the gang are so Tremendous(tm) that I'm borrowing WiFi from the wonderful linksys folks so I can watch this on the subway!

Pretty sure I'm not going to win, but hey, what the hell!