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To play Devils advocate, i think that half the time cars who are stopped in ASL's are there because they were in traffic when the lights turned Red, leaving them in the ASL - this is part of the reason i think ASL's are stupid, because the majority of them are in places were a car is likely to end up in them during rush hour just because of the traffic flow.
Of course there are always the cunts who go in when the road is clear, but when i am driving in town i quite often find myself stuck in an ASL, despite trying not to, just because the lights have changed and i am in a que.
They are nothing more than a token gesture so that the government can say, we spent X on doing this for cyclists. In fact i tend not to use them, because i feel that many of them place you in a dangerous position in front of the guy who has been in his car for an hour, on a mission to get somewhere, who wants to nail it when the lights go green.
I cant blame the police for not giving a shit - i know some coppers and they dont give a shit about RLJing either, and view having to do RLJ blitzs as the worst duty out there, since again they are only doing them so the government can tell motorists who complain that they are taking some action.
ASL's are just a WOFTAM, like most of the "Cycling Friendly" schemes the idiots upstairs come up with