RLJ (Red Light Jumping). (The definitive bikeradar thread)

No, we can. Remember that stuff like this essentially happens because cycling is still a minority activity that's not 'normal'. The more public discussions are had about it, the better. It gives you a chance to address the points. If you have a vision in which cycling is a perfectly respectable activity, blunting all the common prejudices against it, what have you got to lose?

There's still a great deficit in cycling skills in this country, which, after all, hasn't really cycled much for decades, so it's only natural that we need to improve knowledge and awareness, e.g. through cycle training, and that, of course takes a bit of patience. And yes, there are too many traffic signals (often only implemented because they're easier to model in computer models, but actually rather pointless and inflexible), many of which should be replaced by zebra crossings. Cycling, like most activities, is most enjoyable if you do it well, and overcoming social avelopia is actually a very pleasant task.

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Is there somewhere/someone we can write to about lights that basically encourage people to jump them? There are two which I rarely see people waiting for, mostly down to design.
a) The one on Shoreditch High St outside Tesco is ridiculous - it seems to be red more than green with only a short green man phase ie. there is a very long 'blank' phase for the ped. signal in which nothing happens at all.
b) the bicycle crossing light heading north on Queen St (crossing Queen Victoria St) - after you press the button it cycles through all the other phases before you, to the effect that I'm waiting 3-4 minutes and then have to dodge peds jumping my green!