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Hong Kong puts traffic lights on the ground for 'zombies' with phone

The government of Hong Kong decided to put traffic lights on the ground too. Bloomberg reported that the authorities installed LED lights that cover the crosspoints with red lights with the hope that the people looking at their devices will see the illuminated sidewalk and remember they need to stop."

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The number of pedestrians that died on Hong Kong roads has decreased in the last three years, as it was 57 in 2019 and 55 last year, giving a rate of 0,74 deaths for every 100,000 residents. This is compared to the death rate for pedestrians of 1,4 for every 100,000 persons in New York in 2019. Hendrik Tieben, the director of the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, welcomed the practice but warned that multiple crosspoints across the city that still do not have any lights continue to be a source of danger.