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Poland here, we have those buttons and they're retarded
Half of the time they do nothing
Either:
you still have to wait for the traffic phases to change, and even if you don't press the button the light eventually will turn green for you
Or:
if you don't press you'll have a red forever, even if no cars are going (because not pressing the button doesn't actually change the traffic cycles for cars)
They're useless, aside from making sounds for the blind