How to Fix Trail Crossings

WashCycle talks about the confusion of who has the right-of-way at trail crossings. https://www.thewashcycle.com/2011/01/how-to-fix-trail-crossings.html
He has a valid point there is something confusing/contradictory in having a Stop sign with a crosswalk. So just remove the crosswalk.
Interesting solution but I have to take issue with the statement "Traffic lights are expensive". One light is not expensive but I hear you say, but to put a traffic light at every trail intersection would be very expensive. That is just the wrong kind of thinking.
Garrison Keillor has a great skit about a guy who complains to the waiter that there is a fly in his soup. And the waiter responds "There might be a fly in your soup. But there might be a fly in everyone’s soup and we simply do not have the time and resources to check everyone’s soup so we can’t check yours."
We are totally missing the point that we just need to fix where there is a problem, one light at a time and no more, where needed. Unsignalized intersections have a social contract that everyone should be able to negotiate fair and equal treatment of the intersection. When bullies appear and will not let "weaker" users cross, it’s time to call a time out and mechanize who has the right-of-way.
Installing signs on the trail "Dangerous Intersection Ahead" is pure insult. It’s like saying "Ya we know there is a problem but we will not do anything about it." Signing trails with redundant stop messages without the same redundancy telling motorist must stop for trail users puts the responsibility in the wrong place and sends the wrong message. All a light does is automate what is required legal behavior from motorists. Saying a light can’t be installed is like saying motorist are not required to stop for pedestrains in crosswalks. And that kind of thinking spreads till motorist almost never stop for pedestrians in crosswalks.
Like red-light cameras, trail crossing lights need to send a message to motorist that illegal behavior was going on here and everyone needs to take a deep breath and pause for their fellow man and follow the laws even though you thought you could get away with breaking the law at other peoples expense for your own minor convenience. We need to insist that the system accommodates all users and fix where things go horribly wrong. A person is a person wither they are sitting in a car or not. We need to end the thinking "Fast users need to go as fast as possible and cannot be delayed in the slightest. While slower users would not mind going even slower." The reality is fast users can easily make up minor delays, but making it hard on slower users with extra delays on every single block just puts more faster users on the road till the system breaks under the load of just too many people in cars being used for every little thing no matter how short the trip.
All it would take is one signal light a year on a problem trail intersection, till people get it, is that really too much to ask?