Collective Responsibility?

Therefore they see it as a dangerous act and then stereotype all cyclists as being risky.

Yes many road users say they think RLJing is risky, however I suspect that for some, the reason why people dislike cyclists jumping lights is for other reasons, perhaps because this act highlights the freedom (to break the law/to move past a queue without waiting) of cycling in contrast to being trapped stuck in a metal box.

Encouraging people to elaborate more as to why they feel so strongly about cyclists RLJing may provide an interesting insight in the psychology of people moving around and how their core constructs affect their road behaviour.

I co-authored a paper for a Psychology Journal (PCP =Personal Construct Psychology) exploring this. Here is the abstract:

Carsick: construing risk when moving in the urban environment

A collaboration with Cycle Training UK has elaborated the role of PCP in thinking about reconstruing road space in relation to society’s goal encouraging active travel, i.e. getting people out of cars and onto bicycles and walking.  There is Fragmentation in relation to this goal and the construing of urban road planners prioritising car traffic movement rather than active travellers. Car drivers often construe themselves as more legitimate road users while cyclists are marginalised, physically, riding at the edge of the road, and culturally often considered transgressive (jumping red lights etc.). Cycling is often construed as dangerous and driving as safe but the statistics do not reflect this construing.  Cycling training frequently involves working with core existential issues with implications for a person’s core construing and Aggression (Assertion?) in their life as a whole.

PM me if you wish to see the paper