The problem with the above ground alignment is that there’s a long walk to get to anything from the station, because you have to cross the width of the highway + buffer before you get to anything.

I look, but not in a demonstrative, “here’s my eye contact sir/ma’am” kind of way.

There’s a decent number of drivers out there who take a pedestrian’s attention as an opportunity to roll through the crosswalk without yielding.

“They saw me, I don’t have to wait for them at this stop sign.”

Could you describe this situation in more detail? This sounds like a situation where you decided to do something other than what the traffic rules specify, and then received some negative verbal feedback.

I recommend that you go if the law says that you get to go, and you don’t go if the law says that you don’t get to go.