City crews have removed a post with a pedestrian walk button from the Marguerite Avenue median.
The Corona del Mar Business Improvement District board had sought the post's removal after completing an 11-month project to replace the signposts that hold community-event banners. The pole with the pedestrian button was right in the middle of the posts, visually slicing the banners.
Pedestrian walk buttons in medians are an out-of-date custom, city officials said, and the Marguerite median button was part of an old California Department of Transportation plan.
The city now operates the stretch of East Coast Highway in Corona del Mar, and traffic engineers no longer utilize mid-crosswalk buttons, said city spokeswoman Tara Finnigan.
"I don't think Caltrans even puts those median posts in anymore," Finnigan wrote in an email. "We've been gradually taking out the old posts and buttons from the medians since they really aren't needed."