jeeze dude, your a student though right? so you might be able to plead 'poverty' (paying for school etc...) to the justice of the peace that should help knock the costs down if all else fails (it worked on a speeding ticket for me up around York a few years ago).

What intersection were you at?

I find downtown I can get away with more nonsense, but when I'm leaving in the mornings or just coming home from work to my East end apartment where there is less traffic and more opportunity to run lights safely I've been hassled.

There is this one particular old bag of a school crossing guard near East York Collegiate, it's a 4 lane street, 2 or 3 kids may be crossing on the other side (like 80 feet away) just as I'm riding up to the painted line so I'll ride through right? cause there's no harm with the kids way on the other side of the street I figure. She's yelled at me for it a bunch of times, and twice I've glanced over my shoulder and noticed her dialing on her cellphone.... a few blocks later a cop car will suddenly be coming up behind me and slow right down to my speed and follow me for about 3 or 4 blocks. I guess since they can't charge me without actually seeing me make a violation, they'll just watch me for a bit to see if I do anything else illegal.
Cyclists are high risk I guess, rather than being on the lookout for kids dealing drugs or carrying guns to east york schools (where there have been how many shootings/stabbings there this year so far?) they feel they should harass a guy on a bicycle going to work....

sometimes man, how can you not give a cop attitude, it's tough.