Puffin Pedestrian Crossing

Don’t know about you but we have a long way to go and I’m itching to make some progress, thankfully I think we are coming to the edge of town now, just need to be patient until we are past that pedestrian crossing up ahead then hello open road. Ah, it’s not our lucky day there’s an elderly person and it looks like he’s waiting to cross, better slow down and be prepared to stop ( remember this). The lights are turning to red but as soon as the old man has crossed and they have returned to green we can get moving again, then we will see what this car of yours can do without these urban shackles.

He’s a slow mover for sure and what’s more this is an infra-red controlled pedestrian crossing which means the lights won’t return to green until he has reached the other side. What? You don’t believe me? I’ll prove it, take a look at that gadget attached to the traffic light pole just above the lights, you see it? That’s right the one that looks like the laser gun the alien had on his shoulder in ‘Predator’. Well this one doesn’t shoot lasers and you’re not Arnold Schwarzenegger (are you?) but it does shoot an infra-red beam which is tracking the progress of the old man as he crosses now.

In this instance there is no need for the flashing amber stage in the traffic light sequence so you will see, only when he reaches the curb, the light returning directly to green. This particular pedestrian crossing is called a PUFFIN crossing and because it is infra-red controlled I like to think of it as a Ruby crossing, this is one half of a devastatingly brilliant little memory trick. To discover the other half and how it makes remembering the five different types of pedestrian crossing effortlessly easy look out for ‘The Demon Road: A Theory Test Novel’ available to order or download (or both if you wish) on June 1^st from all good online retailers and probably a few rubbish ones too. Next time, the open road...

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