Originally Posted by JoeyBike

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I have a responsibility to myself, my wife, my coworkers, and my next of kin to get to work and home again in one piece doing whatever it takes out there. If it's safer to run a red to get a head start on a green light "releasing the bulls", then I am going to run it if I can. If it is safer to wait for the green, I wait for the green.

Some here have the incorrect assumption in their heads that it is somehow ALWAYS unsafe to run a red light. I find that annoying. Others who are just "letter of the law" junkies I can respect because they know they could easily cross on a red now and then but they don't. I hope they don't get clobbered due to sheer stubbornness.