The author also relied too heavily on 'fatalities' as a metric of safety. A pedestrian hit by a bike running a red like almost certainly won't be killed, and m

The author also relied too heavily on 'fatalities' as a metric of safety. A pedestrian hit by a bike running a red like almost certainly won't be killed, and might not even end up in the hospital. That shouldn't grant bikers a license to run red lights with impunity. To his credit, though, he goes very light on the typically insufferable cyclist tone of moral superiority one finds in articles of this ilk.