They've got an interesting way of handling pedestrians in New Zealand, especially in Auckland.
Vehicular traffic moves in one direction, then another. And then everything comes to a halt, so pedestrians can cross -- the main street, the side street, or both at the same time, diagonally across the intersection. Watch:
You can see that the intersection is even marked with a diagonal crosswalk, or at least the start of one.
It's very efficient once the light changes, but pedestrians have to wait a long time before it does. For that reason, this would probably not work in New York.
We saw this at one intersection in Sydney, but it doesn't seem to be nearly as prevalent in Australia.
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