Originally Posted by ericy

Grr.. On the way home, I cross an entrance ramp to a toll road, but there is a crosswalk clearly painted across the entrance ramp. When I get there, it was clear - I start to move, and then the light changes above, and people come roaring down - they obviously have no effing idea what the point of a crosswalk is. I could tell that this one pickup truck just wasn't going to stop - I anticipated that he wasn't going to do this, so I let him go by .

On the plus side, I cross a number of streets along the way, and I am noticing that much of the time the signal is "don't walk" but when I press the button it immediately changes to walk. So I am trying to perfect a technique of slowly rolling up to to the pole with the button on it and pressing it while moving slowly, and if it changes I can cross without even unclipping...