Yes please! It's unfortunate that this article and so many others focus on how we can design roads to be safer and more convenient for drivers, often requiring larger traffic control devices that make cities even more unnavigable for the rest of us.

You know what's crazier the more I think about it, that the article doesn't even mention? With turn-on-red, and an abundance of intersections without dedicated left-turn signals, pedestrian crossings in America are rarely protected. Turners-on-red rarely come to a stop, and are usually looking to the left, meaning they don't notice a crossing pedestrian until the last minute. Same for left-turners, who are paying more attention to the opposite lane. When left-turners misjudge the speed of oncoming traffic, you can bet they'll sooner accelerate into a pedestrian in the crosswalk than allow the oncoming car to hit them.

I ran into this problem (or rather, this problem nearly ran into me) quite often in Atlanta, where many impatient drivers use neighborhood streets to leapfrog standstill highway traffic. On the bright side, the city is experimenting with scramble crossings, which feel quite a bit safer to me.