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Pelican crossings
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Why are Pelican crossings called as such?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's a slightly contrived contraction from the words PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled crossing. The contraction doesn't really work (it gives pelicon rather than pelican) but that hardly matters since it was really just an excuse to give the crossing a zoological name to go along with the already extant zebra crossing.