To Lead or be Exclusive... for Pedestrians at a Traffic Signal

A fellow APBP member asked the following question: a topic that keeps coming up is the idea of using exclusive pedestrian phases versus other measures to improve pedestrian safety. I've seen mixed messages on this as an outcome, including the possibility that exclusive phases may have fewer, but more serious collisions, or that pedestrians won't wait for the phase to come up, or that it might not…