Oddly enough, here (Toronto), I got a ticket for crossing against a red light (on a Sunday morning, with no moving cars in sight… although granted, I missed the parked police car that decided to get me). I was annoyed, and looked it up. Again, here (and possibly more other places), apparently it’s perfectly legal to cross the street non-crosswalk, mid-block (so long as ‘appropriate care’ is taken that you’re not impeding traffic), but it’s always illegal to cross at a corner when the light’s red, even if it’s perfectly safe to do so and a car would have to be violating the laws of physics to hit you.
Go figure.
