Pedestrian Crossing Survey

I spotted two ladies with clipboards standing opposite the Blue Boar this morning, with the Town Clerk.
At lunch time, I stopped to chat to two different ladies who had taken their place.
They're recording the number of people who cross the road around the busy junction at the Blue Boar, to show a need for a new pedestrian crossing. I stopped to speak to them at about 2.30pm, and they said that 175 people had crossed the road since 1pm.
There are regulations about where it's possible to put a pedestrian crossing, but it's probably just possible to squeeze one in along that stretch of road. They have to be a certain distance from a junction (I think it's 5 metres). It's also difficult on the Radnor House side of the road because the pavement doesn't run very far - it just gets narrower and narrower until it disappears, so people have no choice but to cross onto the Blue Boar side of the road there.
The ladies with clipboards (I haven't seen any men yet) will be recording road use (including how long people have to wait to cross the road) for the next week or so.