Comment by JohnTHaller
3 days ago
I saw this recently when the lights were out at an intersection in Manhattan. People kept on driving and almost hitting pedestrians and cars. I called 911 and then directed traffic for 15 minutes until DoT came out and put up a temporary stop sign.
Odd that it was necessary, my mental model of manhattan is that it would become so slow and chaotic that it would be free reign for pedestrians to walk wherever
Driving up 6th Ave all the lights change in sync one after another, so that street kept moving. Unfortunately, cars kept moving even when the light would have been red and nearly hitting pedestrians and cross traffic.