This may be controversial, but I feel an alarmingly large number of people do not know how to properly cross the street on their own. They implicitly trust the

This may be controversial, but I feel an alarmingly large number of people do not know how to properly cross the street on their own. They implicitly trust the crosswalk signal without both ways and once more to the left. Even more shocking is that people will not look up from their phones when crossing the street. We should always design our transportation networks to be as safe as possible but one should take responsibility for their own life when crossing roads that two ton missiles hurtle down. You never know when someone is going to have a heart attack, stroke, be drunk, fall asleep at the wheel, etc. when approaching a crossing. Just because the light gives one the go ahead does not make it safe. Also, too often I see pedestrians asserting their right of way to cars. Being right isn't more important than being alive.