Hmmmmmmmm... I don't live in NYC anymore but I was born and raised there and left not that long ago. I am still running red lights. I can't count the number of Brooklyn's red lights I've run. Millions? Fewer Manhattan lights... maybe a few hundred thousand. In all that time I never actually saw any other cyclist waiting for a light to change. WTF. There is a huge disconnect between all the hate here for red light runners and what actually goes down on the street. It makes way less sense to run red lights in Hillsboro than in NYC but its in my blood. It is a lot riskier as well. Drivers of 1 ton pickups will chase, block and beat you for running lights out here.
I don't want to believe that any of the hard working commuter cyclists on bikeforums are intolerant, but IMO 20 point type is way overdone for a response to someone's misfortune re: a traffic ticket smackdown for red light running. There really are worse things a person can do and some of you high minded, law abiding, model cyclists that get so smug and superior over those whose human frailty is displayed by their inability to stand still at traffic signals have much larger blots on their own personnel record.
News flash. Red light running isn't going to stop anythime soon. Mainly because the number one argument against it is that it angers motorists. Not that it is unsafe, endangers small animals or makes hair grow on the palms of one's hands, but that it p.o.'s drivers. Drivers and goody two shoes cyclists who don't have the stones to get it done with some dispatch. Sorry for all of you. Stop hating and live your lives. Red light running is hardly the worst thing a cyclist can do. The majority don't cause any injuries doing it. That is why the arguments against it focus on the ire that it elicits from drivers who cannot do likewise. Tough you know what. They can ride a bicycle if they want to experience the rush for themselves.
I could say more but I think my drift is evident. This thread badly needs the balance of an over the top endorsement of pragmatic cycling.
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