Pedestrian crossings across local roads

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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.