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Yeah, i'm no buying this collective responsibility stuff either.
If drivers were 'tarring with the same brush' then they wouldn't roll their window down and talk to me calmly and politely when I've stopped at a light (probably because I've decided its not safe to jump it) and other cyclist(s) around me have continued through.
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From my experiences in Glasgow, I would put a figure of 3/10 cyclists stop at a red light. There are plenty of cars that stop in the advanced cycle zones, and those that have their front wheels over the line, which technically are "jumping" a red light but lets get real. A car that sits in the advanced cycle zone imo is not the same as the huge amount of cyclists that I have seen that cycle straight through a set of lights.
More and more, red light jumping by cyclists is becoming my biggest hate. The stats show that it is relatively harmless in the mount of accidents etc, but the image it portrays to drivers is that cyclists don't care about the law, and as such, they generally have a poorer opinion for cyclists and will then not give a damn if they cut them up etc.