Oh I'm with you. I don't know of a single person who thinks the new style 'green man' is better than the old one, which as you pointed out was always visible to you as you made your crossing. My old neighbour (just died, bless him) had difficulty walking and he hated crossing the road as he...
You can't have been up Fiveways for a while. The Fiveways traffic lights now have a pedestrian crossing function which they didn't have in the 'old' days. In each cycle of the lights there is now an all-red interval (for traffic) and the little green men all light up. My only complaint is that...