Odd pedestrian crossing
October 12th, 2009 by James
“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” discovers a seemingly pointless pedestrian crossing signal in Tokyo:
Their investigation finds that the signal actually corresponds to a tiny far away crossing. Apparently it would not have been a good idea to place the signal in a closer location.
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Whaaaaaaaaat??!
How come?
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Ha, that’s pretty funny. I like these sorts of posts detailing the small things like this.
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That reason makes no sense. It’s harder to see closer up? And what about the trees growing in front of it? And the people who don’t realise that signal controls that road? (Hell, the road itself is two steps wide–does it really need one in the first place?)
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My teacher at university told us Tokyo has been build without plans. I guess he was right…
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What I heard was that, after it was bombed to the ground during the war, it was a rush to draw lines in the aftermath, claim it as one’s own property, and then build, which all took place before a proper urban plan could be drawn up.
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No, that’s grossly exxagerated. Property rights were still important. However if no one was alive to claim a property, that was a different matter. And the lack of any buildings made it easier for the govt to use Eminement Domain and push a few things through.
Nova – Tokyo was never designed from the ground up like, say, Washington DC, but then neither were Paris or London. However Edo was planned, as any glance at an old map will tell you, and the basic grid survives to this day (with various overlays).
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Ah, my mistake then.
I need to remember not to post without verifying it up first.
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Gah. I meant “looking it up and verifying it”.
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Not really – there are often people here who can correct you. After all, you only said it’s something you heard, not that you know for a fact or are dogmatic about.
And dammit, I can’t spell Eminent….
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