Frustrated pedestrians use citizen science to put 'beg buttons' back up for debate

Darcy Reynard hates “beg buttons” so much, he created an online map and recruited Twitter users to use a stop-watch on pedestrian crossing signals across the city.
The map was soon reporting waits of more than three minutes as pedestrians or cyclists shivered in the cold, missed their bus or gave up and jaywalked. 
It’s a piece of citizen science, and one reason Coun. Andrew Knack put the issue on the council agenda Tuesday. 
He asked traffic engineers to re