Originally Posted by
oldgeezerjeff
On the MUP, at a busy intersection, I always wait on the Walk signal to cross. A person in an SUV pulled up through the crosswalk, intent on turning right. And when the signal changed and I had the Walk signal, she saw traffic coming from her left had cleared and, without ever looking to her right, (where I was waiting on the MUP), she took off. She did "see" me as she roared through the right turn, but I could see that she was never going to look my way and even though I had the Walk signal, there was no way I was going to start through the intersection until she had cleared it.
This is a situation I encounter quite often on a particular MUP that I intermittently use, and it's for this very reason that I only use it intermittently. I encounter two such intersections on a short stretch it probably happens a couple of times a week. I take nothing for granted.