Originally Posted by no tengo coche
Got a ticket from the downtown motorcycle cop that busts bikes. He wrote me up for running a red light, there was no cross traffic, I just treated it as a yield.
I dont know how much the ticket is, I guess I'll be getting something in the mail. I'm wondering if I should bother paying this. I don't have a car, and my license is about to be suspended for not paying a 'no seatbelt' ticket, so I'dont have to worried about the possibility of losing my license. What else can they do to me? Arrest me?
Just curious to hear what other people think about paying tickets for riding a bike.
About the only circumstance under which a bicycle is allowed to "run" a red light in most places are when they have established that the light is not responding to a bicycle on the sensor, and thus faulty, and even then it's only permissable after stopping. The way I read your version of the events, you neither stopped, nor established the light was faulty. Hence you broke the law, so pay the ticket and quit whining about it.
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