Generally peak time commuters are worse for it in my experience, particularly the more limit pushing jumps rather than the more cautious roll through a deserted junction you might see outside those times (and which i am guilty of at times) and i think that tends to be amplified in large and particularly capital cities in any country. People using all modes of transport tend to be more likely to be impatient and in a hurry in such places.axel_knutt wrote: ↑6 Aug 2022, 1:07pmI don't have any difficulty at all in seeing why cyclists are more likely to jump red lights in large cities, it's all about the energy wasted by stopping.
Even the Dutch occasionally do as far as I'm aware but I'd say that the theory that infrastructure can be designed to reduce rule breaking is at least a generally accepted notion amongst the more enlightened parts of the transport professions. Cyclists generally have much more priority in the Netherlands, cycle times are kept shorter and, as mentioned up thread, junctions of often coordinated around bicycle travel times, not car ones. In some of their cities they've been designing out car use long enough that they've more recently been taking out signals altogether, they're not needed where motor traffic flows are low.
An example of bad design that will inevitably exacerbate cyclist RLJing is happening in Ireland and specifically Dublin. After initially dabbling with the idea of proper Dutch style junction design they decided they could do better ( ) and have been adding pointless signal controls where pedestrians cross the cycle track rather than eg zebra markings. Compliance rate with these is likely to be very low.