SMS wrote in rec.bicycles.misc:
Bob wrote:
On Sep 21, 10:13 pm, SMS wrote:
This afternoon we pushed the button to activate the light on minor cross
street of a four lane road. The light changed, the traffic stopped, or
so we thought, and we proceed across. About half way across, a Toyota
Corolla blew through the red light at high speed, about 12 feet in front
of me. If I had been two seconds or so faster it'd have been the end.

So I was thinking that it really was much more dangerous to cross on the
green, trusting that the cross traffic would stop, than to simply wait
for a break in traffic and run the red light.

An idiot running a red light endangered your safety so you conclude
that you'd be safer if *you* run red lights? I don't see how that
conclusion follows.

Because I'd treat the red light like a stop sign, and only proceed when
there is no cross traffic, rather then depending on vehicles to stop
when I have the green light.

How about treating the green light like a YIELD sign, and only proceed
when there is no *moving* cross traffic, rather then depending on vehicles
to stop when you have the green light? I see that as preferable to
running red lights yourself.

--
F. Wayne Brown

Þæs ofereode, ðisses swa mæg. ("That passed away, this also can.")
from "Deor," in the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)