But cyclists.....
 

Red light jumpers. Dangerous to anyone on two wheels.

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Re: But cyclists.....
 

these kind of ignorant asswipes are obviously in a hurry to die or kill other people. there is running an amber going on red then there is just plain taking the pizz....

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Yep. Pays to stay alert to red light jumpers. A regular occurence on my commute to work. If I was a second earlier and I'd have been side swiped by this guy as he shot out of side road through a red light. When people do it they don't do it slowly.
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The worst one I've seen was a cyclist who pulled out straight in front of a bus.

The bus driver managed to stop in time, but for a moment I thought they would be sending the cyclist home in a bucket. Twelve and a half tonnes of big red bus can make a quite a mess.

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Another reason I have dashcam. Long gone are the days of a bobby stepping out to give a red-light jumper a ticket.

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To this day I still get amazed on some occasions when I've gone through late-ish on an amber because I feel like I have pushed the boundaries yet I see in my mirror one, two or more cars come through behind me.

I've probably chosen to go through more changing lights due to self-preserving 'fear' of being rear-ended than due to being unwilling to stop myself.

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i dont slow down approaching green lights so its sometimes either brake hard or go through an amber and i use my judgment depending on weather and if there is someone behind me.

you also have to remember that there are a lot of foreign drivers who's country has different driving arrangements with fellow drivers.

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Yes, exactly that.

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In Austria the green traffic light flashes a couple of times before it changes to amber then red. This gives an excellent forewarning that it's just about to change to amber, and while it sounds like an unnecessary complication it actually works extremely well, it takes all the "will it, won't it?" judgement out of approaching traffic lights on green. If it's still solid green at the point where you need to commit to either stopping or carrying on, then you're fine. The couple of flashes then the amber period means you can ease up and stop easily with no drama.

It'll never catch on here.

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Wuh? Don't you need another code to warn you that it's going to start flickering soon?

Seriously, that's what amber means! If it changes to amber in time for you to stop safely and in control, you stop, if you don't have time to stop you go through on amber. Why make it more complex than it needs to be?