Running red lights, obey the law, or accept the consequences of not obeying.

First, if you are going to blow red lights and stop signs, LOOK AHEAD, BEHIND, and BOTH SIDES.

LOOK FOR COPS. If you blow thru, and there is a cop there and you get pulled over and cited, your bad (mistake, error).

People who get ticketed for blowing red lights aren't looking around enough.

There's nothing wrong with stopping until the lights change. Or in some states with "dead red" signal laws, (sensors that don't detect bicycles) stopping on red lights, then proceeding if you aren't impeding cross-traffic drivers.

On rolling thru, with no or minimal slow-down, you takes your chances. Bad decision-makers get eliminated from the gene pool. I do not believe cyclists should, bereaking the law, force motorists to majorly brake. Has this happened to me? Yeah, sometimes, but it made me feel bad. I've had many more times when I had a stop sign, and drivers without a stop sign give me, "You go," WTF is that?! Really nice courtesy.

When you are cycling, you have to figure a lot of things out. Like, if you ride roads/streets a lot, a Dinotte tailight is really good for making drivers change lanes waay behind you, on 4-lanes, or even on 2-lanes giving them time and distance to cooly calculate how and when to pass you.