Shouldn’t pedestrian lights be consistent?
By Lethbridge Herald on November 19, 2025.
Editor,
I read Ken Moore’s letter about synchronized traffic lights with interest. I agree, it would be wonderful if the light was green for us all the way down.
An issue that I and some of my friends have with traffic lights, is that some of them, on the green light, the walk countdown to zero turns into a stop hand for several seconds, then the light turns yellow, while others immediately turn into a yellow light after zero. Wouldn’t it be safer and cause less confusion, if they were all the same over the whole city? Either/or, just consistent.
If there is a good reason that there are these two different types of signals, please someone from the city enlighten us. Thank you so much.
Roxanne Cooke
Lethbridge
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Wouldn’t be surprised if Dr. Evil (from Austin Powers) came out of retirement and got a job with the City doing traffic signals.