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Pressing the crosswalk button over and over will make the light change faster.
Well it finally changed the 8th time I pressed it, so checkmate.
I think we know it doesn't help, but we do it anyway.
The buttons are intended to be placebo except in some places.
In my experience it's only automated in the cities and most of the lights are manual everywhere else.
I'm in one of those places. In Utah, many crosswalk lights won't turn on at all unless you press the button, and the button can completely change the light timing and ordering (e.g. a protected left turn light activates at the end of a cycle instead of at the beginning).
Traffic engineers here are sometimes allowed to do some fairly interesting things.
Same goes for most "close door" buttons in elevators btw. ๐
Sometimes buttons don't work the first time you press them.