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Agreed. I rode motorcycles for years. Filtered too. On very nice motorcycles. It only took 1 slow speed wobble and bump with a pedestrian and I was slowly toppling into tarmac. Both ped and I were unharmed. No shoutiness on either side. But the cost of repair and re-painting of my gravel-rashed bike was really painful. Lesson learned. Always anticipate and prepare to deal with it. As a ped. As a motorcyclist. As... er... anyone using the roads.
MetalMelly
If the traffic is moving slowly enough for a ped to conceivably (rightly or wrongly) walk through it, I always assume that it will happen and try to ride accordingly. Be careful filtering past stopped buses etc. There will of course always be the likelihood that there is someone I don't see or they run smack into me, but at least I can say that I did everything in my power to prevent a collision. I'd rather be slightly slower in heavy traffic than having to argue a case in court that could have been avoided.
Filtering at normal road speeds is fucking stupid.