a puffing crossing is a pedestrian user-friendly interface if you take the first letters of those words it spells out puffin but only with one f the reason it is user friendly is a puffing crossing to the more modern crossings and they're quite clever they have sensors on top of the traffic lights and sensors on the road to monitor traffic levels and pedestrian levels so for example if someone press the button wanting to cross the road the sensors might see as a car coming and let that car pass before the traffic light changes so not to startle and surprise the driver or if the possession presses to the button and there's no cars the lights may change immediately where on traditional pelican crossing when a pedestrian presses the button you'll simply have to wait six to seven seconds before the light changes even if there's no cars coming the sensors can also influence how long the lights stay red or green for so for example there's lots of pedestrians looking to cross it might stay red for the cars for quite a while let all the pedestrians cross safely some puffing crossings are even helpful for visually impaired pedestrians there's a secret cone underneath the box you press and when the cone rotates it tells pedestrians the lights are on green man so they can cross when it stops turning it means do not cross it's a red man puffing crossings can be identified by the box you pressed across the road on the box there will be a red and green man and the button just below that box like shown on the picture here if you continue to watch the video you'll see the difference between the box and a puffing crossing a pelican crossing a toucan crossing and equestrian crossing a pelican cross scene is a pedestrian light controlled crossing if you take the first letters from those words it becomes pearly con so like a pelican just spelt slightly differently on a pelican cross scene when you press the button to cross the road you will get a wait light the red and green man will display on the opposite side of the road on the traffic lights pole as previously discussed a puffing crossing has sensors on it this will help to ensure the traffic light only changes when the crossing is clear however a pelican cross scene is not that intelligent so it needs to have a flashing amber phase this is to allow pedestrians to finish crossing the road before the cars proceed so in summary flashing amber to drivers means allow any pedestrians to finish crossing if there's no pedestrians already crossing then proceed you do not need to wait for green if you say the word to can slowly it becomes to can as in two types of road users can use the crossing pedestrians and cyclists two can crossings can be easily identified on the yellow box there will be a green man as well as a green bicycle or a red man as well as a red bicycle depends on what stage the crossing is at it's also quite common to have a bicycle lane approaching a cross scene equestrian crossings are quite rare but you may have heard the word equestrian when watching the olympics equestrian crossings are also sometimes called pegasus crossings pegasus being a mythical flying horse either way these crossings are designed for horse riders like shown on the picture the yellow box will have a red and green horse rider on it rather than the traditional red and green man it's also quite common to find two buttons one a pedestrian level and one a horserider level most people normally know what a zebra crossing is as is easily identified by the black and white stripes on the floor and the black and white stripes on the poles called felicia beacons of course black and white stripes like the black and white stripes of the zebra but is a zebra black with white stripes or white with black stripes on a zebra crossing you may notice the dotted white line before the crossing this means you must give way to pedestrians including pedestrians who are already on the crossing and also give way to pedestrians who are looking to cross on approach to most pedestrian cross scenes you will have zigzag lines these zigzag lines mean you must not park and you must not overtake the leading motor vehicle the reason for this is if someone parked within the zigzag lines is restricted view of the crossing and you might not see someone crossing the road so there could be a risk of hitting them if someone has stopped on the zigzag lines then you'll need to approach the possession crossing with extreme caution like you would a closed t junction when you can't see what's coming approach very slow speed crawling if necessary being ready to stop immediately if you see a pedestrian walking in front of you it's a similar reason why you must not overtake within the zigzag lines the vehicle in front could be slowing down to give way to a pedestrian for example on a zebra crossing attempting to overtake the slowing down vehicle could result in you hitting a pedestrian pretty scary stuff there so do not overtake within the zigzag lines it's extremely dangerous and would most definitely get pointing a license and a hefty fine if you felt like someone was going to overtake you within the zigzag lines it could be a good time to use your hand signals when it's safe to put your hands up the window and do the slowing down hand signal to say to them you need to slow down and do not overtake me i am giving way to a pedestrian you