Originally Posted by base2

Well when you have to explain to your cities chief engineer that crosswalks are "people space" and he says they are "shared space" we have a problem. If drivers actually shared the so-called shared space there would not be a conflict. Their failure to do so is a failure of design.

He referred me to another engineer on staff. This one in charge of the re-design of his failure. That meeting was productive & there have been several emails exchanged with specific infrastructure features now incorporated.

I don't know that demanding equal priority and consideration to the public space is really that radical.