I treat all stop signs and red lights as if they were Yield signs. Wrong? Yes, but I am careful for my safty and others. Road safty can't be completely defined by rules alone. Much of driving any vehicle is skill and thinking using common sense. I'm not going to sit at a red light on a bicycle when there is no cross traffic coming. I have done this (I don't know how many times but more than once) and I feel like a moron. As mentioned above (floatsinwater) many times a bicycle won't trigger a stoplight to change. If a police officer wants to jump out from a bush or billboard and ticket me then so be it. I would probably say something like "oh great, you have foiled the great bicycle mystery".........."I bet they are proud of you downtown"............"we can all sleep safe knowing your keeping cyclist in line"....................."did I use the wrong hand signal, here is one"..................... JK I wouldn't say that but I would want to, ya know.