Originally Posted by
threeflys
You should NEVER be the first one into an intersection! If some jackhole is running the red from the other direction (that never happens, right?), you're dead. This is one of the first things they teach you in motorcycle safety and in the AAA driver improvment class I teach.
Yeah, because you always have a choice at what order you get to a light. And all lights always work for bikes, so you'll never have to wait for a car to activate the signal. Right.
Hopefully, the OP is not blind and will check the intersection as he is entering it.