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If there's a stop sign you'd need to come to a stop even if there's no pedestrians at the cross walk. If cars would stop when there's a pedestrian then they only need to stop when there's a pedestrian.
As someone who seldom drives, sure put up a stop sign. But it would be better for drivers if it didn't have to come to that.
This ridiculous pop-up crosswalk is a rube goldberg stop sign. Overly complex and definitely is something that will take plenty of maintenance to keep clear and operating correctly. Imagine if all or part were to fail in the “up” position. The only benefit is operation on-demand vs a small inconvenience to drivers and a large increase in safety to pedestrians.
For the purposes of this discussion, a stop sign is easily the correct solution and a minor inconvenience. Either that, or station an officer there randomly and rake in the ticket fees for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk.
I think the pop-up crosswalk was just done for the advertisement, it's not a permanent thing.