I'm surprised that such buttons even exist in the US.

I have become convinced that people get addicted to speed. One of the fastest ways to make some people's blood boil is simply making them drive a little slower; even if it's so marginal that it can't actually possibly affect when they arrive at their destination they become furious.

The US loves to have wide, straight roads with great visibility and no obstacles on which cars could easily, safely do 80MPH (in the absence of other drivers of course) but with artificial limits of 30-40 miles per hour that everybody obviously ignores because - hey, just look at the road, it's begging for people to go faster. The Netherlands by comparison generally does a great job of managing drivers' expectations by adding artificial curves, places where cars have to gently swerve, setting trees along the roads that give a feeling of constraint and not "wide open place to floor it", etc. Of course you still see people here losing their minds because they have to wait for pedestrians to cross once the light turns green, but it's not as bad as my experiences in the US.

I press the button every time, and if there's a break in the traffic, I cross before it changes.

I also recline my seat on the plane as far as it goes. I don't have any problem with others doing the same.

The sense of entitlement of people inside cars is staggering

Not 50 minutes of human life; 50 minutes of carbrain life. There's a difference

I definitely don’t want my life in the hands of someone that can’t afford to be 30 seconds late to wherever they are going.

Fuck Jeremy Kauffman.

I agree...
but not in the way the Twitter OP expects.

For the majority of intersections, if you don't press the button (or more often, don't press it in time), you don't get the walk light. Doesn't matter if the parallel car traffic has a green and all cross traffic is blocked, if you didn't press it beforehand, it stays on the red hand and skips your turn.

I say the buttons should not be there to "beg" for crossing permission. They should be used to say, "Hey I'm in a wheelchair or carrying a heavy can you give me 15 extra seconds?" And it should not need to be pressed beforehand.

I hit these buttons in both directions whenever I get to an intersection. The more stopped cars in the city, the better.

definitely satire

everybody knows an intersection like this has at least a 90s light cycle

This HAS to be satire

Par for the course, it would seem.

State Libertarian Party leader charged for disorderly conduct after fender bender

Jeremy Kauffman, a former Free State Project leader who now chairs the New Hampshire Libertarian Party, is facing criminal charges stemming from an incident where police say a fender bender in a Manchester parking lot prompted Kauffman to fight “several people” and yell racist epithets.

Hint of misandry too, implying it's not manly to follow traffic safety laws. Dude probably has personal hygiene too and Mr. Jeremy Kauffman would point out washing one's butt is gay.

Awww he's upset his broom broom had to go wait wait

How dare we let the elderly, children, and disabled cross streets! They’ll get away!!!

But they stop anyway for the other traffic

Just one more lane, bro 🙏

In my city, crosswalks, even with the flashing lights mean NOTHING. Less than nothing really because it gives people a (very) false sense of security.

Starting to think this entire community is satire

The infrastructure is the true waste. I mean, the least they could have done was make it a fucking circle....