Spot on, Kay! Demand buttons are an abomination.

Disappointing and scary that something this simple to correct for the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists is not considered a priority.

For instance, at Park Presidio Boulevard and Cabrillo:
a nursery school and bike lanes in either direction.

Balboa and Park Presidio Boulevard:
a school, a church, a library and two bus stops. We should not need to push a button to cross the boulevard.

Bicyclists do not get off their bikes to push a button on a light pole so a driver doesn't turn into them.

Not sure how to be any clearer about this safety concern. Maybe we need a big accident first to get attention to this. Let this be record as this is bound to occur. Then the City attorneys can deal with it at a completely different level.

What happened to pedestrian right-of-way? Many SF organizations / people get these posts. Not sure why this is not being acknowledged as an issue. One more time, we need to ELIMINATE these buttons please --

Hey SF:

!) - less maintenance !
2) A $$$ Saving solution!
3) Make people safer!

Thank you,
A pedestrian who uses these cross walks dozens of times each week...

Posting this AGAIN. If I knew how to change the duration myself, I would. It's just unsafe. Period. Please advise who I can talk with to get a solution.

On the list for a very very long time, but nothing done. Demand buttons need to be removed. Pedestrians need right of way, PARTICULARLY across Park Presidio Boulevard. When is something going to be done? Please note -- if this turns into a pedestrian death, then this will likely be used in a court of law that the issue was brought MANY times to the attention of the City and they will be rightfully sued. Please look at other wiser decision makers where they are either eliminating these dreadful countdowns, or expanding the time so even a person needing a walker can get across six busy lanes of traffic safely. Wake of SF!

Still an issue -- It happened again this morning. One-half second after the light changed, we hit the button to walk, but it did not change. Do we EVER re-time crosswalks or do we just need to continue playing car roullette? Is this difficult to do? If we HAVE to keep these walk / don't walk signs, can we at least give walkers a two second lead to cars?

When they repave Park Presidio Blvd in June, will they be fixing these crosswalks? I certainly hope so. It’s been literally years of a timing issue and dangerous for pedestrians.

Saw a guy putting up a new signal light for cars along Park Presidio Boulevard at cross streets Balboa and Cabrillo. I asked if he could make the adjustment so people can push the walk button and have it work. He said no, he couldn't do it. Weird. When someone decides to get around to resolving this, maybe they could actually put a delay on the signals like they do on California (a less busy street than Park Presidio) so people have a fighting chance to get across before the pedal hits the metal.

Requesting Ms Chan take this issue on day one of her new role. We shall see... I offered my services to get it fixed if she can't get it resolved internally.

SO interesting to see this is a complete NON ISSUE for CA Hwy 1. I talked to Chan the first day in office. Has she done anything to help? Nooooo - If a Supe can't make this happen, they are useless. Vote her out ASAP.

Originally Reported in June of 2012. (Not a typo -- yes, almost 14 years on this list)

Interesting (and weird) update: They did automatic pedestrian crosswalks along Park Presidio Blvd to cross the avenues going NORTH /SOUTH and EAST/WEST - EXCEPT for the one that was pointed out on this forum as being particularly dangerous. Go figure.

So at CABRILLO and PPB you still need to hit a button to get across Park Presidio Blvd. with no lead time. That just doesn't make one bit of sense. Did SFMTA just miss this one? Weird --

SFMTA -- PLEASE add automatic cross walk button at Cabrillo and Park Presidio Blvd. It is the only one that still requires pedestrians to push a button to activate the cross walk. This is also a BIKE ROUTE across PPB so it should be automatic anyway, no matter. (And there is already an automatic one for North/South at Cabrillo along PPB.)