-
Because it displays a wilful abdication of personal accountability as you confer responsibility for your safety onto those around you?
Exactly this, plus it's (often) a selfish move by definition, whereby the jumper takes advantage of others' adherence to a code in order to break the code themself.
If nobody stuck to the code it would be chaos, but because most people do stick to it, it means that a few can disobey it. What makes you so important that you think you can be one of those few?
fizzy.bleach-
I certainly don't think I'm important and I don't RLJ but I can't say that others RLJing bothers me. Just interested to get someone else' take on it that's all.
-
Well said both.
-
I largely agree, but it should be noted that signalised junctions only exist because of motor traffic. Junctions between peds and cyclists and more often than not unsignalised as the negotiation is on a much more level playing field.
jakemcree
mattired
Backstop
Because it displays a wilful abdication of personal accountability as you confer responsibility for your safety onto those around you?
Tl;dr it's a dick move.