Today, I took my usual lunchtime walk down Fifth Ave in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. While I was crossing Lothrop Street, and more than halfway across in the crosswalk, a blue Dodge Neon comes zooming around from making the left off of Meyran to making the right onto Lothrop right in front of me. The young male driving the car thinks he's cute and yells at me, "Don't worry, it's only a turn signal". Well, of course I have no retort, as I'm just glad he timed it so that I was not stepping in front of his car. He seemed to think, in error, that because the light was in his favor on Meyran, it applied to Lothrop. It does not. Traffic that is turning onto Fifth from Lothrop has a stop sign and is not controlled by that traffic light. Likewise neither is pedestrian traffic and in any case, pedestrians have the right of way. He was in the wrong and should have stopped seeing that someone was in the crosswalk.

[Crossposted to the Pittsburgh Community]