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I think this might be the incident my boss was talking about seeing the other day. Apparently the bus floored it to sneak through the lights on the cusp of red, and the bike (along with loads of peds) was doing that thing of anticipating the light change too, and setting off sharpish.
The timing of lights is ridiculously close as it is. I've raised this issue before. With everyone keen to sneak through/set off at the first available nanosecond, it would make sense to have a pause of a few seconds between red light and green man. But of course they'll want to keep the traffic moving...