Dezracer
Well-Known Member
I've been in your boots and treated it similarly. I never counted but if I sat there through a full cycle of the light and nobody had come up behind me in a car to trip the light, I would just go if it was safe.Cops have better things to do here than pull over a cyclist for that.
I never do it when there are pedestrians.
Just like I never run red lights.
Unless one has me trapped in a turn lane at a deserted intersection in the middle of the night, and has cycled through the lights in both directions while skipping me as I sit dutifully in the turn lane waiting like a fool for a light that will never be.
Then I check each direction while counting to five and then drive on.