Infantilised pedestrians

[Martin Cassini]

Maybe I'm a dying breed - the kind of ped who crosses the road diagonally, using the middle of the road as a safe haven, taking the shortest route between two points. Pythagorean, John Adams would say. Yet peds these days seem to take the long route devised by the engineers. How often do you see a ped press the pelican button, only to look up, see the road is clear, and cross against their red? When they've long gone, traffic is halted at the red just called - for no-one.