new straw said:
I think the whole point is to allow for pedestrian traffic. I think they are trying to divert traffic where possible.
The biggest problem is they have 30 seconds of "pedestrian only" traffic and then they still give pedestrians the rite of way when auto traffic is flowing which causes you to have to be extremely aggressive turning right because what was stated above that window is very short.
They need to do one or the other. Either allow pedestrians to have 30 seconds to clear the intersection and then you stop all pedestrian traffic outside that window or you have them cross at red lights like your general intersection around town.