Clinton, you are right, motorists must keep track of everything.  If they can't, they should stop driving.  I don't drive and am elderly, disabled and very slow.  I can not cross a roadway without hitting a blinking red pedestrian signal.  In fact, many signals turn blinking red a fraction of a second after they turn white.  As you are about to step in the street, you are breaking the law.  There is no way I can cross a street without a police officer thinking I must have broken the law.  They only make their judgment once you are in the crosswalk.  At that point, it is NOT against the law to have a blinking or solid red signal.  A lot of officers seem oblivious to this. They also will find a violation when a motorist is in an intersection with a blinking red or solid red light.  That is NOT the law. A motorist must enter the intersection (cross the vehicle stop line painted or implied) on a blinking light with time to safely stop for a violation, not when the officer looks up.