Cyclists should just be allowed to go through red lights anyway.
In the US *everyone* can make a right on a red (and yet the sky doesn’t fall in). And they have laws in a few states allowing cyclists to go through a Stop sign or a red if it’s safe to do so. Again, the sky doesn’t fall in as a result.
Meanwhile car drivers seem to be perfectly OK with parking on double-yellows, and right on junctions, not to mention doing the overtake-and-immediately-turn-left manoeuvre – all of which are actually dangerous.
So I think the real reason car drivers get cross with cyclists jumping red lights is that they’re sat in their little tin boxes, destroying the environment, making themselves unhealthy, breathing shitty air. And who wouldn’t get cross with that – we’re just a convenient excuse.
It’s bullshit.