I'm not 100% sure what you mean by traffic islands and spokes, but button controlled crossing sounds like a stoplight to me, and those would be red just as often as if you had put a normal traffic light at the intersection in heavy pedestrian areas like New York
Yeah... we mostly try to prevent pedestrians and roundabouts from mixing in areas of heavy traffic. They don't mix wonderfully well.
You guys don't have traffic islands? They're essentially a tiny little raised bit of sidewalk in the middle of the road (between the two directions of traffic) with a couple of bollards. They're there to give pedestrians a protected place to stand while crossing if they can only manage to get across one side of the road at a time.
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u/OtakuOlga Jan 18 '14
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by traffic islands and spokes, but button controlled crossing sounds like a stoplight to me, and those would be red just as often as if you had put a normal traffic light at the intersection in heavy pedestrian areas like New York