I LOVE Philadelphia. Even though it's been many years since I was there, it still is my favorite northeastern US city. New York City is cool, but I just found Philadelphia to have more charm to it, and the city itself and the people to be less intense than New York, if that makes sense. And before I went there, being that it's an old, colonial city, I was expecting crooked streets and lanes. It wasn't until afterwards I learned that Philadelphia is the US' first city to be purposely laid out in a grid with right angles.
As such, it's still a very walkable city. My assumption is it's because most of the streets aren't very wide, being the street grid was created centuries before cars...
OK, enough of my rambling. When I was there, I noticed that many intersections that have traffic signals, do not have pedestrian signals. Is it because they aren't needed? The street is narrow enough that a pedestrian can easily make it across, and can just cross on the green light. I know of some intersections like this in San Francisco, though I can't think of specific locations. One intersection in my own town of South Pasadena is like this, but it's the only one I can think of specifically in my city.
What do you guys think? Is there a specific reason why many signalized intersections in Philadelphia don't have pedestrian signals?
Example, and this is outside Center City Philadelphia, although I can see that it's 2 narrow one-way intersecting streets:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9936...oASAFQAw%3D%3D