Pedestrians already have the right of way at any marked cross walk or any intersection (marked or >not) by state law. I think it is high time that drivers become educated to this fact. A month long >crack-down on violators by all law enforcement agencies state wide would go a long way to raising >the awareness level.
I feel safer crossing in front of a car that presumably has stopped for the red before turning right, >than I do in front of a car that has a green light right of way who needs to SPOT ME in time to >stop before making a right hand turn.
Three things:
1) You're totally right about enforcement.
2) People turning at a red often don't stop, when they do stop they pull way out into the cross street, and the lanes that cut away from the main lane (I don't know what they're called) at the stoplights just encourage drivers not to stop. They seem to be a standard design of the intersections at Hwy 55.
3) My complaint is with the way the walk lights at that intersection work - when the lane you're crossing, between any 2 safety islands, is safe because all the lanes of car traffic have stop lights, the walk light won't go on. It stays don't walk until *all* the car traffic lanes you would cross to get all the way across the street, even though there is a separate signal light on each safety island. Then the walk light is too short to easily make it all the way across the street anyway.
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