Originally Posted by lyeinyoureye
Tick off people? By safely running a red? Huh, that's news to me...I've never been honked at for doing anything illegal/not well defined. Just when I'm doing something legal that some motorist doesn't know about, like getting through on the yellow, or riding on the left side of a one way street.
I've run reds/stops in front of cops, and they don't bat an eye.
My experience matches lyeinyoureye's observation. Only legal cycling, specifically cycling in a traffic lane that possibly might cause motorists to slow down or change lanes raises driver ire. I have seen no evidence of motorists or LEO ever giving visible or audible evidence of giving a dang about what bicyclists' do as long as it doesn't cause motorists to contemplate changing their own trajectory or velocity.