Donald J. Lazo has some good reminders for drivers when they are sharing our streets with pedestrians. I’d like to add a reminder to pedestrians that they are expected to adhere to traffic signals the same way vehicles are. A “Don’t walk” signal means exactly that.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to turn left from southbound Michigan Avenue onto eastbound Superior Street on a green arrow, only to have to stop in the northbound lanes to wait for pedestrians who are crossing Superior, despite the “Don’t walk” sign clearly illuminated.
In this instance Lazo’s assertion that the pedestrian is right and the driver is wrong does not apply, and there should be no surprise, as Lazo suggested, at any “wisecracks . . . directed toward the pedestrian in such cases.”
