No kidding! I GET the concept, but in practice, I think it's a dumb thing. What it's doing is making people less aware of their surroundings, and putting them into more danger than ever before.
When I was growing up, I was told to looks both ways before crossing the street. Then you were told to look left, right, then left again before crossing. You were also told to not cross the street in the middle of the block, but growing up with my best friend living right across the street, I wasn't buying that! (the rebel I was!)
Now with the signs, people do NOT watch where they are going, and about 75% of the people driving don't know whether to stop or not when they see someone approaching the crosswalk, so you almost rear end people who stop unexpectedly!
In essence, since people really do not know what to actually do in this case, I think that they either need to put stop signs in places where there are highly used crosswalks, or eliminate the law and go back to cars having the right of way. With the way people are so engrossed in what's on their cell phone, people are going to get hurt, and I'm actually surprised (and thankful) that more haven't been hurt.
ADDENDUM:
Ok, so this morning, I was driving through Hershey coming home from the post office, and there's a crosswalk crossing the street from the flower shop to the little building with Bricker's Pizza...I'm following the slow flow of traffic, and I just happen to look to my left, and this little old lady is crossing...a car heading in the opposite direction that I was traveling in ALMOST clipped the poor lady...thankfully they stopped in time! There really are way too many close calls to have this continue unless there's a stop sign involved!
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