We have a lot of exclusive pedestrian phases in Somerville, MA, where I live. They are what have historically been installed at most intersections. Unfortunately, they are pretty much all triggered by a button, which peds rarely press, since most peds wait for a gap in traffic or cross concurrently with traffic anyway.

Concurrent crossings are generally preferred, since the wait time for all road users is less. For example, if a signal is 30 seconds in one direction, 30 seconds in another, and has a 15 second exclusive walk phase, peds may have to wait up to 1 minute in order to cross. Whereas if the ped signals are concurrent, a ped will wait no more than 30 seconds.

this is really fun!

but i wish you had shot it from above street level.

I should add that in some intersections in downtown Boston, where there is heavy ped traffic, there is an exclusive (or Barnes) phase in ADDITION to the usual concurrent walk signs. This works quite well, in my opinion.

Hilarious!

Also, there's one in front of Penn Station at 32nd and 7th Ave.

Yellow hats were key--So good.

There are a few along Second Ave between 23rd & 34th Streets where 2nd meets a one way street that only comes off 2nd going westbound. This happens because there are a lot of blocked off blocks between 1st & 2nd.

There's a Barnes Dance at 11th Street and Broadway.