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Slow news day down here in the south. Pretty much a whole article on a single cyclist jumping a red light...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWfUKqEGiU
(apparently he was 'ok')
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It's not quite the Croydon Tram. Not sure what made him think he could make it (safely).
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(apparently he was 'ok')
they always say that -
Wonder if he was wearing a helmet?
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Surprisingly balanced RLJ discussion on reddit right now.*
*insofar as balance is available on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/46k1ur/as_a_pedestrian_i_hate_cyclists_that_dont_stop_at/
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Or yawning
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Just seen this, new incentives to wear a helmet in Sydney and larger fines for RLJ
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Madness!
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@hippy you must be so proud
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I had to jump a red light a few weeks ago. No, no, wait, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation ... :)
I was coming up to the traffic signals at Mare Street/Morning Lane, going south. The nearside lane, which is left-turn only, was full up with a queue waiting for the split-phase left turn lights to change to green. I was in the empty straight-ahead lane between the central reservation and the stationary queue, and the light ahead was green. Just then a very fast police driver with lights and sirens on came up from behind me. I had nowhere to go but straight ahead, as there wasn't time to get off the bike and onto the central reservation. I thought I could get through on green, but it turned to red before I got there. A police-induced RLJ, so to speak. Fortunately, a driver turning right out of Morning Lane had seen what was happening. An unusual case that has reinforced my disapproval of both central reservations and split-phase arrangements at junctions.
tl;dr--you had to be there.
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No impunity, you could still get a fine even if you're doing it to get out of the way of the emergency services. You should only RLJ if instructed to by an idenitfied pleessman. They basically have to be standing in front of you waving you through. The lights and sirens are not such an instruction.
I would still use my discretion and get the fuck out of the way if I could.
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http://www.bluelightaware.org.uk/?p=239
On the (hopefully) rare occasions that a blue light vehicle, in ’emergency mode’, is sitting behind another vehicle at a red traffic light, it’s important to appreciate that it would be both very dangerous and illegal for the other vehicle to move across the solid white line. The exception to this is that a uniformed police officer can direct a motorist through a red traffic signal. This sometimes happens if a police motorcyclist is part of a ‘special escort’ team and needs to clear and secure a junction, thus allowing a security convoy to pass through the junction.
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RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)
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@gav
I visit the US, and particularly New York, about half a dozen times a year.
In Manhattan they have the green man (well white) to cross at the same time as it's green for cars to turn into those streets. I find it very unpleasant with cars trying to edge in, bikes sailing through, etc. I can't help but feel that if it was brought in over here you'd get a load of cyclists taking the piss and attempting, in the same way, to edge through pedestrian crossings.
On a related note, I got called a wanker by a tourist for cycling through a junction like that which made me chuckle as it's not an american insult.