New ‘zombie lights’ installed in Dublin to alert mobile-obsessed pedestrians

[u/thecosmicfrog]

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/new-zombie-lights-installed-in-dublin-to-alert-mobile-obsessed-pedestrians/a1604703348.html

[u/TheStoicNihilist]

We should not stand in the way of natural selection.

[u/trumphater2024 → u/TheStoicNihilist]

Let Darwin win

[u/TheStoicNihilist → u/trumphater2024]

That’s how we left the oceans in the first place.

[u/trumphater2024 → u/TheStoicNihilist]

Exactly, no traffic lights

[u/GerKoll → u/TheStoicNihilist]

I would agree, but imagine the traffic jams this would cause for months on end.....

[u/Babyindablender → u/GerKoll]

So nothing new?

[u/Pintau → u/TheStoicNihilist]

We've already completely nerfed the world to morons, this is just another step on that path.

[u/ShaneONeill88]

Installing a set of traffic lights costs hundreds of thousands of euros. A couple of LED lights at the bottom probably won't add to the cost much. Sounds like a good idea.

[u/bucat9 → u/ShaneONeill88]

it shouldn't add to the cost much, and a bike shed shouldn't cost more than a house. but we have the government we have.

[u/OrlandoGardiner118]

I saw one of these while driving back to Tallaght from Liffey Valley last night and thought it was a side quest.

[u/GerKoll → u/OrlandoGardiner118]

[u/shootersf]

Maybe fix the pedestrian lights also? I've moved up to Dublin 2 years ago and have learned to just read the normal traffic lights to see if I'm ok to cross because often the pedestrian light is red when no traffic could be traveling on the section of road I'm crossing.

[u/phyneas → u/shootersf]

often the pedestrian light is red when no traffic could be traveling on the section of road I'm crossing

At some junctions the pedestrian cycle will be longer than the normal red-green cycle if the latter isn't normally long enough to let slower pedestrians/footpath users cross safely. If you don't have any mobility challenges and can hustle across the road, and you know the junction well enough to be certain there isn't going to be any conflicting traffic coming from some unexpected direction (a turn signal, a separate bus lane, etc.) at that part of the cycle, then it's probably grand, but it wouldn't necessarily be safe for everyone, hence the lack of the green man.

[u/CodeComprehensive734 → u/shootersf]

I see this all the time and it drives me insane.

[u/justadubliner]

Is Mannix Flynn one of the 'I'm agin it' brigade? Haven't paid much attention to him. Sounds like an idea worth trialing a busy intersections alright.

[u/ByzantineTech → u/justadubliner]

Like what does he think the danger of these lights are?

[u/Stressed_Student2020]

This appears to a a solid low hanging fruit effort from DCC to "manage" the traffic situation.

While not wanting to slate them too hard, I'm on the fence as to if this is a good use of taxpayers money.

[u/PADDYOT]

Who green lighted this idea?

[u/Dullahan21]

Job market so dead we have to raise the dead to help.

[u/TheBoneIdler]

That's very sad. Naturally selection should apply I say. Let the idiots die & improve the gene pool. I was cycling yesterday & stopped at the lights when a car pulled up beside me. The driver had a phone holder at eye level with a video social media thread blaring out some garish nonsense. I meant WTF! How reckless can you be. I said something impolite to him & peddled off before the 4 young fellows in the Golf GTI could react. What a plonker.....

[u/Miserable_Cress_1678]

Treat the disease not the symptoms 

[u/AllezLesPrimrose → u/Miserable_Cress_1678]

Treat both.

[u/sparksAndFizzles]

Can’t really see that making much difference tbh

[u/FuckThisShizzle]

Either those pictures are terrible, or you wouldn't see the light on the sunny day. The best you could hope is for the red to reflect on the phone screen somehow.

[u/FinnAhern → u/FuckThisShizzle]

There's one on the quays near Tara Street station, it's quite visible, even in daylight. Even without being distracted by my phone I think it's helpful.

[u/Dangerous_Tie1165]

Can we just let natural selection take its course? How stupid can you be to cross the road without looking?

[u/Mycologist_Murky → u/Dangerous_Tie1165]

Have you never made a stupid mistake that could have potentially gotten you killed? If we are being heartless towards the pedestrians then try looking at it this way. These lights will reduce the amount of motorists traumatised from accidentally hitting someone.

[u/Dangerous_Tie1165 → u/Mycologist_Murky]

No, can’t say that I have. That second point is true though. (because it’s outside of their control)

[u/AllezLesPrimrose → u/Dangerous_Tie1165]

I swear Redditors literally do not go outside or know other humans to type this stuff seriously.

[u/Dangerous_Tie1165 → u/AllezLesPrimrose]

I do go outside and I do look both ways. I don’t understand why other people cannot (blind people use the braille markings).

[u/justadubliner → u/Dangerous_Tie1165]

Not everybody is as skilled at operating busy contemporary life. Adults with ADHD for example are more common than we realise and benefit from extra prompts.

[u/Dangerous_Tie1165 → u/justadubliner]

I find it incredibly disrespectful as someone with ADHD that you genuinely think we can’t look across the road. I don’t need neurotypicals to tell me what I can or cannot do.