How do you use Berlin crosswalk signal boxes?

How do you use Berlin crosswalk signal boxes?

3/22/2019 1:44:14 PM

A lot of confusion (among Germans!) probably stems from the very similar and also yellow boxes that Germans have known for decades to be on some traffic lights which call for a green light for pedestrians (see image below).

green light requesting button yellow box

Once my child self had internalised that these should be pressed when you wanted to cross a road (if there was one of those boxes, the traffic lights would usually not grant pedestrians green unless pressed), I started doing it automatically whenever a yellow box of any type was fixed to a traffic light.

However, the type in your picture is actually not pressable; it does not request a green light. It is merely there as an assistance to visually impaired. Well, my instincts trying to press something on that yellow box are stronger than my conciousness telling me that there is nothing to be pressed, so I press …

1/4/2019 4:33:20 AM

Simple answer – you don’t. Unless you’re blind, as that’s who they are designed for. And given that your question started with “I see …” I’m going to presume that you are, indeed, not blind!

Their purpose is not to make the light turn green, but to allow a blind person to know when it has changed to green.

For the longer answer, refer to this blog post which will give you all the details you could ever want.

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