There's a light in a village by me that won't give the walk signal unless someone hits the button, but instead will let cars turn. Last weekend when I went up t

There's a light in a village by me that won't give the walk signal unless someone hits the button, but instead will let cars turn. Last weekend when I went up to this light (as a pedestrian), there were two other pedestrians waiting. I had (wrongly) assumed that they had hit the button. But we waited two light rotations and I heard them complain about it not letting them cross. Then I hit the button myself and the next rotation it let us cross.