| At this busy crossing near the centre of town and just outside a hospital, you've got around 20 seconds to make it across the road. My name is Hillie Talens, and I work as a project manager for CROW. So you're in control of all this, all these roads basically? In the end road authorities and other people use our guidelines to make the Netherlands more beautiful and sustainable, etc. We're standing at some lights now, they've just turned green. So we start walking and we can walk with a speed of 0.8 metres per second and reach the other side, so not so fast. Not so fast. We're walking at quite a leisurely pace, but it's flashing already. So what? So we're only half way across the road. But they don't drive, they don't try to kill us. So we're here, it's red, we're here, they're still not driving. But it's not enough time for everyone. And it's not just the elderly who are having problems getting across on time. My name is Joella, I'm not walking slow, but sometimes it's going so fast, especially when I'm with my baby girl, I have a daughter, then I'm going to run because it's scared, yeah. So would the authorities be willing to give the pedestrians more time? We could consider this but you can imagine how much time we will lose just by making some people feel more safe. It's just about feelings. So the cost to changing the system would be the whole country would slow down? Yeah, if you look at a huge scale maybe the whole country will slow down. So the drivers will just have to be patient. |
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