I have always wondered this. Lollypop women/men do great jobs making sure the kids get across safely, but what on earth is the point in a lollypop person waiting at a crossing for the light to turn red THEN they will cross the kids, even though the traffic has stopped?
Hmm when i was young all the lolypop people were at small roads, crossing kids on their own initiative, but now there they stand at a (pelican) crossing and press the button
2006-10-21 21:45:10 · 7 answers · asked by x !! Me !! x 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I wondered this too. You can only assume it is yet another way of the local councils throwing our money away .Surely if the pelican crossing is doing its job(which we assume it is ) then there is no need for a lollipop lady there too. They should either be moved to streets where there are schools and no Pelicans, or they shouldn't be employed at all.
2006-10-21 21:54:36 · answer #1 · answered by little weed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children will often take a chance and run across the road just as the light is changing. If they understand that they are to cross only when the lollypop person allows it, then they won't encounter danger in this way. I remember one nightmare situation when I was crossing a road with my children in the company of a number of other people at a set of traffic lights showing a green man when a car came towards us hooting. It was driven by an old man who clearly had passed the point where he should have been allowed on the roads and who was completely oblivious to the traffic lights. Mercifully there were so many of us on the crossing that he had to stop, albeit reluctantly, but suppose it had just been one child?....
2006-10-22 08:13:15 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Extra saftey
not all car drivers stop at red lights
as a lorry driver and father of my 4 year old son i am extra carefull.
I have full respect for the lollypop people,they keep our children safe
2006-10-22 04:53:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we were young there were less cars on the road & people drived slower - now some mad people jump the lights allot more & so they are there just to add a bit of safety
2006-10-22 04:52:33 · answer #4 · answered by swoodleybird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...maybe its an extra safety thing...i have nearly been hit and ran over twice in my life...after the light had turned red and the green man had come up to walk safely across..a car still came!!!..i suppose its just to make sure the cars have stopped ect...
2006-10-22 04:49:13 · answer #5 · answered by sandra k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the evils of technology my dear
2006-10-22 06:21:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know but dont tell them!
They are old.
2006-10-22 04:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by Piztaker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋