Here in Stockholm they got rid of the flashing green man on large intersections (in other words, where the change was most dangerous for pedestrians).

Because cars can always turn through a crossing, this causes near misses and mayhem all the time, but I find generally that a lot of people don’t notice or just accept the car-dominance as a natural thing.

When the kids were small we taught them about these dangerous intersections calling them “surprise-red-man” crossings (sounds better in Swedish).

I’ve never been able to work out the logic of why the flashing green man should disappear on exactly those roads where they’re most needed.