War on the roads. The system is to blame

In the centre of Exeter, on foot, approaching a traffic-lit junction, I saw a gap between clumps of waiting peds, and a bigger gap in the one-way traffic. As I crossed, causing inconvenience to no-one, a driver saw fit to honk his displeasure at me, a wayward ped crossing on his green light. I blame the pillock less than I blame a delinquent traffic control system that subverts the sociable practice of taking it in turns.