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@snottyotter
Fact eh? It's all conjecture and bullshit based on your uninformed ramblings. People can run pretty fast too if they want, it makes very little difference how you approach a crossing if you are using it as a crossing, you travel towards it, you press a button and you wait for the lights to change. You could crawl up to it at 1mph or hop towards it at 30mph. Running or riding across a road without checking is the same whether you do it at a crossing or not. The rubbish you are saying about the lights themselves causing a problem is daft, there is no nipping through on amber that would intersect with a green man/bike. The traffic lights go red then after a pause you will get a green man, after an amount of time and when it senses people have crossed the green man goes away, there is another delay then the lights will go amber then green. Nipping through on red/amber will not be affected by who is using the crossing or how fast they can move, the lights will red for a while before people cross at whatever speed, if you still manage to hit someone you are very wrong but the lights are not.