Just a quick thought.

My main commute takes me across two major roads Grant and Campbell. Both are 2 lanes in both directions divided by a turning lane. At Campbell, things are simple. Its a 4 way intersection with a traffic light. When the light is green I go. But Grant gets a little confusing.

See the street that I take across grant is paralleled by a striped pedestrian crossing. It also has the light (not a full traffic light) activated by a button. Normally, in traffic i act like a car. But because of the pedestrian crossing, when I stop like a car, some cars think that I’m going to act like a pedestrian.

So even though I didn’t press the button cars sometimes stop. Kind of them, but risky since the driver in the next lane may or may not stop and my view sometimes gets partially blocked. What I end up with is one of those I wave the driver on then they wave me on so I start to go but the other guy doesn’t look like they are going to stop so I hesitate but then they do stop but the driver who first stopped starts to go because I hesitated. What a mess.

Sometimes I think I should just hit the button?

But if I hit the button I feel like I should walk my bike across the street. Which I wouldn’t and that would make me feel like a sidewalk riding fraud.