U.S. Cities Ranked by Pedestrian Crossing Signals

I have traveled to a number of cities in the United States. You'll never know what that number is or whether it is big or small. Most of these cities have unremarkable pedestrian crossing signals, which I mean to be the light-up orange hand that sometimes flashes and the white figure walking to the right. Maybe they are actually doing a little dance. Like this: ᕕ(⌐■_■)ᕗ

Three of these cities are mildly remarkable. I will list them here from worst to best.

• The worst offender is New Orleans, Louisiana. Sixteen seconds to cross six lanes of traffic on Canal Street is bad enough, but just as you are hurrying across with a shallow illusion of safety, a lawless streetcar approaches straight through the center of the street, dinging its bell and callously ignoring the sideways red traffic lights controlling the cars on either side. It takes, on average, two traffic cycles to make it from the French Quarter to the Central Business District.
• Ringing in the exact center of this list is New York City, New York. These lights are only as effective as their perceived authority, which is none. They may as well be ghost lights: completely invisible except when causing a brief, terrified hesitation to a passing tourist.
• The best city in the United States to cross the walks is Washington D.C. baby!!!! Have you ever seen a NINE in the tens place on a crosswalk timer? There are so many places around D.C. with more than ninety seconds to cross a normal sized road. You could be quarter mile away from that glorious crosswalk signal and still make it fully across the street without a glimpse of that orange hand. The internet tells me that there is a crosswalk in NYC with a 120 second crosswalk, but it's an anomaly. D.C. is littered with the highest two-digit numbers I've ever seen count down on a city street.