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The green man gets more time to cross the road to elderly and obese Britons

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 23, 2023
As senior and obese Britons make the country slower, pedestrians will have 20% longer to cross the road as a green man. According to Department of Transport (DfT) policy, Walkers now have 6.2 seconds to cross a normal road at a walking speed of 1.2 miles per second. According to The Sunday Times, a new plan would allow 7.3 seconds to cross the road at a speed of 1 meter per second. A lot of infrastructure is aimed at the average person, but the number of people excluded by that is increasing, so we must address it.'