Pedestrian crossings across local roads

[mtbc]

My neighbourhood features mostly one-way streets, alternating in direction rather like in Manhattan. At junctions between perpendicular streets, the two incoming directions for vehicles can be stopped by a signal-controlled pedestrian crossing, the outgoing directions allow vehicles to leave freely. This is a little inconvenient as a pedestrian: to make my way ahead, at each junction I must make two crossings: one to get to the other side of the road I am following, the other to cross the intersecting road. It is fairly workable, often I can make one of the crossings shortly after its counterpart, but I wonder how typical this arrangement is, how other cities place pedestrian crossings in such situations.

Comments

[armiphlage]

I haven't seen ones like that here, the sidewalks on both sides of the road have crosswalks.

[darkoshi]

After making those 2 crossings, aren't you on the other side of the road than where you started? What if you need to go somewhere on the opposite site? Are you supposed to walk to the next intersection to cross the road there, and then backtrack?

[mtbc]

That's a good point! I suppose so. Fortunately, the blocks are fairly small.