There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
This is dumb. Yes you should have right on red.
The walk signal puts it on drivers IMO, as a driver that is sick of driving. It’s the same idea as how it is not recommended to wave people on and just follow the road rules as closely as possible so you don’t wave them into danger by giving them an erroneous sense of safety, only the walk signal is doing it. I walk, bike, and drive so I am pretty aware of what could unexpectedly be dangerous, and it’s everything and a lot of it. The entirety of north America needs infrastructure overhaul and reform. This just isn’t working.
Isn’t that part of the job of the lights in the first place, to give everyone their own “timeslot” they can cross safely with?
I’m from the UK, we don’t have anything like this, I’m not 100% sure I know exactly how it works, but it seems pretty dangerous to me.
I can imagine a busy 6 lane intersection with filled lanes and crossing Peds going in all directions, you’re just asking for an accident