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Correct this is not the thread for it however, I used to RLJ every lights I came to, traffic coming the other way? Don't care, squeeze through a gap. I was like the less cool, more english mash sf crew. Then I got fed up of nearly dying, running into people and getting shouted at so I started stopping at reds and running empty ped crossings or junctions with no traffic around.
But then you get that person who is just walking down the road looking like they're quite content with the side of the road they've chosen to walk on but when they reach a crossing they make a sharp 90 and step out without looking. Or a seemingly empty junction you think its safe to proceed through, the lights are about to change to green for you anyway but the BMW driver down the road the other way sees this as a challenge and runs the amber/red into you.
Extreme cases, I'm sure the lights you're talking about are straight roads with no pedestrians in sight but you know what I mean, its just not worth it.
Not to mention the "collective blame" or whatever its called. Some people say its bullshit, either way its certainly wrong but I think if drivers see you jumping through lights while they have to sit in traffic, they gon be pissed. At you and at cyclists because we're all the same right?