As a pedestrian, things like cyclists running red lights "when [they] think it's safe" cause a huge amount of consternation for me. Traffic rules are in place s

As a pedestrian, things like cyclists running red lights "when [they] think it's safe" cause a huge amount of consternation for me. Traffic rules are in place so that other people on the road - pedestrians included - can have reasonable expectations about the behavior of other actors. If I need to wait when I have a "walk" symbol because I don't know whether a cyclist is going to feel entitled to run the light or not, then a cyclist has no right to call me a "large moving meat pillar" because it's the cyclist's own disobedience of the law that is causing the disturbance in the first place. Cyclists, I know you hate dead stops, but don't be assholes to pedestrians who aren't being assholes to you.