Confession time: while I am one who claims to never running red lights, there is one intersection like this on my commute...if someone pushes the "I want to cross the street" button, then when the cross street lights turn red, there is about 5 seconds to give pedestrians a head start, and I usually start riding when the walk signal appears. My feeble, non-legal justification is: I'm exiting a residential area and there is almost never anyone behind me, and 99% of oncoming traffic is turning left, and they would probably appreciate my clearing the intersection before their light turns green.