Following All Rules of the Road While Biking - A New Movement

I've been commuting on my bike about half the time for about five years now, and I've never followed the rules of the road, especially traffic lights. It's faster to ignore them, but I'll admit that I've had a few close calls with cars I didn't see as I was blowing through a light.

It's arrogant and inexcusable to ignore rules we expect drivers to follow, while at the same time we demand respect from these same drivers. Each time a hostile driver sees a cyclist blow through a light, rage is built up in that driver toward all cyclists.

With more cyclists on the road than ever, and a lot of them new, it's important that we all start following the same rules, drivers and cyclists alike.

I started a few days ago. It's not much slower. I frequently catch up to cyclists who blow through the light in front of me.