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jakemcree
RLJs are directly responsible for the people who post nonsense under news articles saying "cyclists all break the law anyway", who eventually end up on juries handing out a Not Guilty or behind the wheel doing a close pass.
And aside from that, it's dangerous for the RLJ, it's dangerous for pedestrians, and 99% of people who do it are knobheads who think they're too important to wait 20 seconds rather than people who've thought about risk and decided that it's safer because of left hooking or a person turning right across their path (which is a sort-of reasonable position).