Most types of road crossings in the UK are named after animals

The whole country is proud of the Toucan crossing pun, but you are clearly proud of "Horse crossing felt very pedestrian."

I actually laughed so hard at the Toucan crossing 😂😂

Someone in a boardroom definitely suggested the "toucan" as a joke and then kept his mouth shut when the room liked the idea

The Panda Crossing failed to reproduce.

Horse crossing felt very pedestrian... 😂

We have those Pegasus crossings in Sweden, too. Took me years to figure out why the button was mounted so high. Eventually the manure gave it away...

It tricks you into thinking it's named after an animal. It's a peli-con.

puffin crossing "you picked the bird first" lol

A lightbeacon beeing named after you isnt the worst thing happening to someone called Hore...

"Horse crossing felt very pedestrian" I'm sorry sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave

It's cute, punny and memorable. Perfect for kids to learn early. Brilliant

There is an extra one now! The Sparrow crossing Seperated PARallel Rights Of Way Basically where a bike path has a seperate crossing that works in sync with a seperate pedestrian crossing

“Very pedestrian” in a video about road crossings was SO much better than it had any right to be 😂

The pegasus crossing was named after a horse that can fly, since the other light controlled crossings were named after things that can fly. (And I think the Panda was replaced by the Zebra - A prototype that didn't quite work)

This was one of my favourite parts of learning driving theory - the Pegasus is definitely my favourite (although quite rare)! I was also in Pegasus house at school - our house colour was purple, so I now think of Pegasus as having a pale purple tint. I love the little bits of whimsy we have in otherwise mundane things here in the UK.

It's not a horse crossing, it's a comparatively mythical kind of horse crossing. Everyone in the UK has to know about it for the theory test, but the chance of ever actually encountering it is next to none; you only ever come across them in Books. Also; Welcome to british R&D and naming conventions. If you went to BR, you'd find OLIVe, MEDUSA, CHAFFINCH, and a dozen other names for one-off inspection vehicles and hilariously strung-out explanations for them. On the other end of the spectrum, Warhammer's character Leitoo started out as Limited Edition 2, or LE2, getting phoneticised. The whole idea has a kind of odd history. with the introduction of telegraphs, the Railways had an odd problem that designating things by task and purpose in to a string of digits, just led to garbled nonsense and confusion, especially for more specialist items, so they made a cute system of names for vehicles to make this easer. Mammals for goods vehicles, Fish for engineering vehicles, and things broadly between these two points, represented by their appropriate Amphibians. So a Mink is a covered van, a Pike is the same thing for engineers, and a Tadpole is a flat wagon that can be used for either. This kinda resulted in a culture of things having names, since it is easier to memorise, read off from a telegram or hear over the phone phonetically. You see the culmination of this in WW2 with our tank naming system, where everyone else had a designation system, "Panzer 4, T-34, M4," Britain had a naming system where the first character gave an indication of what the vehicle generally was, and then the rest of the name was unique. Covenanter, Crusader, Cromwell. We carried this on in the Cold war, with six wheel vehicles getting "S" names; Saracen, Scimitar, Stalwart. These had inbuilt jokes, Dragon being a Drag-on, to drag artillery guns and carry ammunition on it's back, but it would also breathe fire if it was in a fight (not a flamethrower, more an observation of a lightly armoured vehicle filled with explosives.) And when R&D divisions were set up for road technology, you'd find that most of the brainiacs had come from the Royal Engineers or other related group, and so the first meeting would be coming up with a name for it. It's tradition built on, by that point, a century of communication errors resolved by giving things names. Which loops back to our Crossings. Zebra because it looks like a Zebra. Panda because it's like a Zebra, but it's shaped differently. Penguin because it's also black and white, but different. Pelican because It's PE LI CON, as you said. Puffin and Penguin are black and white birds with orange beaks. They look like a Zebra and they're birds like a Pelican. Toucan crossing is the same, with the added fun of Two-can. By which point you have a bird theme. So Pegasus makes sense from a few perspectives. 1; They were requested by the MoD and are basically exclusive to the areas around Horse Guards in London, and a few other comparable sites, but they are a mandatory part of the Highway Code. Thus, They're mythological; known to Everyone but so rare as to perhaps only be found in a book. 2; It's a Horse-Bird, often featured in Black and White. Panda and Penguin were discontinued in the 1960's, the Panda earning a poor media reputation and being quietly evolved in to the Pelican. Penguin never existed in practicality and was reserved in relation to trolleybuses, but were basically redundant by the time they were being considered and more generally evolved in to bus lanes. You're only ever going to find anything about them if you're insane enough to consider getting an "I" class trolleybus licence in the mid 1960's.

There's also the parallel crossing aka the tiger crossing. Like a zebra crossing but with an additional lane for cyclists to ride across. Definitely sharing this video with my learners, thank you! Side note - I have socks with a zebra on a zebra crossing. I also have socks with puffins and another pair with tigers. They had ones with a Pegasus but sadly no pelicans or toucans

As a man from Louisiana (state bird is the Pelican) I approve of PeLiCon.

New Zealand has the zebra crossings too... with belisha beacons. We have school crossings called KEA crossings after one of our birds. The bird has orange feathers under its wings and the crossing uses orange flappy warning signs... like a Kea

You won me at “two can cross” as a man studying for his theory. I’ll never forget that 😂