I appreciate you reaching out to cyclists; I've thought of doing the same thing to runners, asking them why they insist on using the bike path on the Hudson River rather than their own adjacent path. I don't know what to do about the GWB because, as has been noted, both pedestrians and cyclists tend to stay on their right side rather than obey the signs. Wish there was more room and everyone was on the same page. Not sure what can be done about that; we're ingrained to stay on the right, I think. You're way off base, though, about crossing the street. I can't tell you how many times jaywalkers have forced me to suddenly have to change lanes or stop on the street to avoid going down - and often they don't even know it's happened. How is jaywalking after yielding, looking both ways and "that whole thing" any better or worse than a cyclist approaching a red light at low speed, yielding, looking both ways and "that whole thing", then crossing the street? Let's face it, everyone breaks the law in little ways - drivers speed and roll through stop signs; pedestrians jaywalk and use paths dedicated to other forms of transportation; cyclists don't always wait for the light to turn green. To somehow imply that pedestrians crossing the street against the light is somehow less harmful than cyclists doing it strikes me as absurd.