Red lights and cyclists in NYC

[Martin Cassini]

Sometimes I comment at the end of articles that hit my Inbox, like the following in response to this about the NYPD cracking down on cyclists who run red lights. "So much blame going back and forth! The real culprits are policymakers who force us to live and die by a flawed system. Why do we "need" traffic lights? To break the priority streams of traffic so others can cross. Replace priority with equality, and you remove the "need" for lights, and the need for speed, enabling all road-users to interact sociably and take it more or less in turns."