Ah come on now Leo, we are into semantics now. If I said that I usually prefer product A over product B then it easily could, and quite often would be deemed that I am promoting product A.
So when you said "I usually prefer when cyclists proceed through lights" then that easily could and quite often would be deemed that you are promoting that cyclists do, just that.
I see where you're going, but promoting it would imply I actively encourage it. By saying it suits me as a motorist when cyclists don't obstruct me or slow me down, I don't think that's really going to encourage too many of them to break the law just to facilitate me. It's not like I'm shouting out the window at them
And now we are back to my first post in this thread, ie. when cyclists are accused of breaking the ROTR their immediate "defence" is "Well look at what motorists do....". As if that, in some way, mitigates their own disregard for the rules.
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None of us is perfect on the road but why cyclists, when seen/accused of rule breaking cannot simply "put up their hands to it" and say "Yes you're right, I shouldn't do it, mea culpa", but feel compelled to come out with......"Well what about motorists blah blah blah.......", or, "Well the reason I don't adhere to the rules is blah blah blah.......", is beyond me.
Quite simply the ROTR are there and are law, all road users are bound by them, whether we agree with them or not.
It's like I mentioned above, whenever anyone comes out with an unbalanced view complaining about another group in society, members of that group are always going to come back with an equal (or this being the internet, greater) attack on the group the OP belongs to. So these threads always just descend into the same old nonsense that goes nowhere.
It's not an exclusive cyclist thing, take a look at threads on here and other forums started by cyclists, motorcyclists, truck drivers or pedestrians complaining about another group of road users, and it's the same old arguments, just in a slightly different order. They never go anywhere, and nothing is ever achieved.
As a cyclist, I'd consider my compliance as better than many, but I'll readily admit to going through red lights when it's absolutely clear and I in no way inconvenience a driver or pedestrian. As a pedestrian, I rarely wait for the green man to cross roads when traffic isn't flowing, or even go too far out of my way to cross at a pedestrian crossing. As a driver, I'd consider myself more compliant than the majority I see during my commute around Dublin, but I do occasionally cross a solid white line to overtake a cyclist, tractor, etc., I'd be blown out of it if I didn't. I don't always 100% clear a yellow box, sometimes approaching traffic lights that change, I might roll a little past the stop line (even an inch is breaking the law after all).
I really would like to see some meaningful dialog, and accurate statistics on our compliance with road traffic legislation as a whole, and see if real figures do indicate one particular user group is worse than another, is it a particularly Irish thing, and how we compare to other nations. Remember the inspectors sent over by the Luas operators a number of years back to investigate why there was a significantly higher occurrence of incidents involving trams here? Their conclusion, we collectively, and consistently ignore the law.
Quite simply the ROTR are there and are law, all road users are bound by them, whether we agree with them or not.
Moving on from semantics to pedantry, the ROTR aren't the law, they're just an 'easy to read' synopsis of the various acts, there's a lot of subtlety in the acts that they don't cover.