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Seen & Heard: Lambert & Fils at Duane?
AN ADDITION TO OUR DESIGN DISTRICT?
For some weird reason I stood on the street watching this for quite a while the other night — it’s kind of hypnotic. I also think it’s a sign (literally) that the former Thomas Hayes Studio space at Duane and Hudson will be taken over soon by the Canadian lighting designer Lambert & Fils.
FLU SHOT ANYONE?
A. reports that the line at CityMD has gotten longer with each day. Flu shots? More covid?
PEDESTRIAN ASSIST AT CHAMBERS
I never thought these things worked — it made no sense to me, since lights in NYC are carefully timed down to the half second, that a pedestrian could interrupt the scheduled timing. But here they are, four ped buttons, one at each corner, complete with a computer-generated voice to assist. I’ve asked DOT to explain how they work…
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“In New York City, only about 100 of the 1,000 crosswalk buttons actually function, confirmed a spokesperson from the city’s Department of Transportation in an email. That number has steadily decreased in recent years: When the New York Times revealed that the majority of New York’s buttons didn’t work in 2004, about 750 were still operational.”
CNN: “Illusion of control: Why the world is full of buttons that don’t work”
Published 3rd September 2018
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/placebo-buttons-design/index.html
NY Times, 2004: “The city deactivated most of the pedestrian buttons long ago with the emergence of computer-controlled traffic signals, even as an unwitting public continued to push on, according to city Department of Transportation officials. More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that still exist function essentially as mechanical placebos, city figures show. Any benefit from them is only imagined.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/nyregion/for-exercise-in-new-york-futility-push-button.html
It’s placebo effect.