[B’ Spokes: Richard Layman has a nice summary of (pioneering) resources on this topic in particular this one which never accrued to me before. The problem with typical crosswalk besides drivers rarely yielding is that pedestrians do not have a solid right-of-way, drivers are turning right or left across their path. So how do we dial up accommodating pedestrians (i.e. people)? From https://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2012/09/bicycling-as-traffic-calming.html]
There needs to be more “Barnes Dance” pedestrian scramble intersections, where pedestrian movement is prioritized over cars and the pavement treatment needs to emphasize this, like in Pasadena or Oakland, California–DC has such an intersection, but there is no special treatment of the crosswalks, in particular the diagonal crosswalks. If there were, it would emphasize the importance of pedestrians.
Barnes “Dance” intersection treatment, Oakland, California, from the Streetsblog entry “Eyes on the Street: History of Oakland Chinatown’s Barnes Dance Intersection.” The entry has some great photos.