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Biking & Walking

I use this intersection on bike 5-6 days a week. Cars regularly run the red light on 3rd, going westbound and it is a very dangerous intersection/cross walk. I cross 3rd, by bike, using the pedestrian cross walk to avoid the bike lane on washington in front of Davinci because there are almost always cars parked in the bike lane. How this cross walk works is: the light on 3rd turns red and the walk sign to cross 3rd (southbound, from the NW corner) goes on immediately, then there's an ~3second pause until the light for cars to cross 3rd southbound turns green to give pedestrians an advance into the crosswalk before southbound traffic turns west onto third. But the bigger problem is the westbound traffic on 3rd. The only solution I see here is to have a longer pause for the walk sign going on when the light on 3rd turns red to effectively give westbound traffic adequate time to run the red light.