KMC has installed push-button traffic lights in 36 locations and Lalitpur has set up 8 to improve pedestrian safety.

This week’s correspondence contained a request to explain what pedestrian signals mean. The gentleman who sent me the e-mail ...

A pedestrian traffic light at a busy junction in Tralee town centre has been stuck on red for almost two months.

It’s -6. I wonder if the button got frozen down." Traffic lights in the Heywood and Middleton areas were also reportedly affected. "If anyone lives near a pedestrian crossing that keeps changing ...

"Due to the sub-zero temperatures we have had a number of reports of frozen push buttons causing permanent pedestrian demands at traffic light-controlled pedestrian crossings across the county ...

Pedestrian activity also affects the timing of traffic lights. "If a pedestrian push button has been pressed, the light may take longer to change so that the pedestrian can cross the street safely ...

The same issue was also reported on Thursday in Royton, Oldham. A poster on Facebook said: "The pedestrian crossing outside Lidl is glitching. Keeps turning itself to red after a few seconds of green.

In Kent, the county council send engineers out. "Due to the sub-zero temperatures we have had a number of reports of frozen push buttons causing permanent pedestrian demands at traffic ...