On Sep 21, 8:13*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.

Wish I could remember the correct attribution (or maybe the correct
quote), but I was reminded of the following:

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but
that' s the way to place your bets.

Watch out? Sure! Be careful? Absolutely! Change your default
behavior to running red lights on a bicycle? BZZT!

Pat