avant la gare Haymarket

It's been so long since Haymarket was as it was before it was mangled that the precise patterns of movements of train-hungry pedestrians are distant memories, though the previous daft arrangement of staggered crossings and isolated islands usually meant a few people trying to cross from a position in which they were unable to see any traffic lights indicating whether or not the traffic into which they were about to venture might be about to move. After making it safely past the bit of road with the tram tracks on it a few of them seem to relax and stop checking carefully both ways, though there are usually a few crossing right where the second track-crossing is required when heading west, often occasionally mistaking the move-left-to-cross-them-at-a-better-angle movement for a move-out-of-the-way-of-the-pedestrian-who-is-obviously-waiting-to-cross-despite-there-being-a-proper-crossing-ten-feet-further-west.