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This seems reasonable.

The only reasons the buttons were removed was because of paranoia over COVID spread through surfaces. This was done hastily so they made the simplest change possible, adding the walk to every cycle.

Now they've had time to program it properly they can let trucks and heavy vehicles through more efficiently at 10pm-6am. How many pedestrians are around at these times?

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More than you'd think. We're talking about the CBD and inner suburbs, there are a lot of late night venues and people often use public transport around here which involves a bit of walking. And 10pm isn't that late, particularly on a weekend.

Trucks and heavy vehicle really don't have any business in the CBD and for the few times they actually have to come in to the CBD for e.g. some construction work, I'd argue it's completely ok for them to wait longer.

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