Originally Posted by
gregf83
I don't think it's ridiculous to have to wait for a slow moving large vehicle and I don't find it ridiculous that one might have to wait a few seconds for a group of cyclists to clear an intersection. I know it's unlikely to happen but drivers need to step back and learn to relax a little while driving and not freak out over every event that might delay their travel by 5 seconds.
To play devil's advocate, the car 6 or 7 back may miss the light and have to wait an extra cycle.
Also, at least in some places, you are not allowed to be in the intersection when the light is red. The truck would be ticketed. In just a few states you can't even enter on yellow. From that perspective the train of bicycles moving through the red light would be illegal, whether or not you viewed them as a single vehicle.