Since an intersection was not listed one must assume you mean the Hopkins/Plains/Center intersection. You mentioned police directing traffic. If you recall when that occurred it just made things worse at the location. As a person familiar with transportation engineering design, a signal would only complicate things. More rear end collisions would occur at the intersection than accidents occur now. In addition, due to the angle that Hopkins comes into the intersection from the east, the signal would be required to operate in what they call a split phase operation. This would result in significant delays for traffic using the intersection. As a user of the intersection on a daily basis, the only near misses I observe is when people fail to yield the right of way. For example, this occurs when a vehicle stopping behind another vehicle "bullies" their way through the intersection. My suggestion: look both ways and use caution when traversing the intersection. Staying off the cell phone wouldn't hurt either.