Originally Posted by
mr_bill
Running red lights is a problem. No matter if the vehicle running the red light is a motor vehicle or a bicycle.
(FWIW, the right turn on red without stop, the other right hook, is the one that scares me.)
And in the are you kidding me what percentage of cyclist who run red lights are running dead reds?
To a first approximation, zero percent.
Now back to our regularly schedualed but "they" are worse appologists.
-mr. bill
But are cyclists always running red lights? As I stated earlier... could a good portion of this simply be that motorists don't have a clue as to the real status of the lights in an area... that some just don't work for cyclists... and they perceive a cyclist going through that broken light as a red light runner...
The detection equipment is primarily designed for large motor vehicles... even guys on motorcycles have a difficult time triggering some lights.
Now the cyclists that pull up to lights where there are waiting cars going in the same direction.... that's a different story.... I know, I know, they want to get ahead of MV traffic... Which is why some locations put in bike boxes... but otherwise, yeah, that's an issue. When I see that , it kinda chaps my hide too. But how much of it is that, and how much is just cyclists knowing that the lights don't work and therefore taking off when it simply safe to do so?