Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
My experience has been that cyclists get few hassles from anybody for jumping lights or anything else, legal or not, as long as it isn't directly affecting a motorist's forward progress. If a motorist feels that his progress is being impeded by a bicyclist's actions, it may be immaterial if the cyclist is legal or within his rights, and a hassle is initiated. Maybe the UK is different.
+1
(man, that hurt).
Or at least, that's how it pans out in the real world. The media world (often including online BBSes) is different when people get brave behind a keyboard and decide to whine about cyclists breaking the same laws that everyone else breaks. I suspect that happens because cyclists are a minority, where motorists and pedestrians are not. Hmmm, so much for being brave behind a keyboard.