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March 8th, 2007

Equality of sexes: a pedestrian step

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Posted by: Robert Basler

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A few months ago we had an item about a town in Spain that was going to start using female figures on half of its street signs.

Following up on that, there is news from Madrid today that new traffic lights will alternate between male and female silhouettes.

Hayley Platt has a video report:

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March 8th, 2007 6:26 pm GMT	I must confess that the image doesn´t look attractive at all. What about fashion? - Posted by armstrongfl or E.F.Effe
March 8th, 2007 8:12 pm GMT	…the new traffic lights will eventually include transgender silhouettes, elderly (with an included walker), alien (the outerspace kind), and the occasional goat… - Posted by K
March 8th, 2007 9:39 pm GMT	Thank God I’m a Scottsman. - Posted by Shawn Hendricks
March 9th, 2007 1:47 am GMT	I can see it now… Some numpties thinking that only the people of the same gender as the crosswalk can cross the street… ~rolling eyes~ - Posted by Lady Weasel
March 9th, 2007 7:24 am GMT	Oh yea.. And how do people know the origial crosswalk character wasn’t a woman wearing trousers? - Posted by Lady Weasel
August 29th, 2007 10:27 am GMT	Shawn Hendricks says: March 8th, 2007 at 9:39 pm GMT Thank God Im a Scottsman. What’s Your problem Shawn? :))) - Posted by lb

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