"If a 4,000-pound SUV runs a red light, they get a ticket and you pay it online. You're done with it in a matter of minutes. But if a 60-pound bicycle runs a red light, then they can get a criminal summons, which means you have to take a day off of work, go to court, probably you should hire a lawyer. And if you are an immigrant, then that can put you at risk of deportation," Berlanga said.

This comes as the city started issuing criminal summonses to cyclists back in April for basic traffic violations, like running a red light or riding on the sidewalk. Berlanga said it's not the bikers that are the problem, but the infrastructure. She pointed to the lack of protected bike lanes on East 149th Street.

Maybe they shouldn't be running red lights?

Like, it seems the major complaint is now that they're being held accountable for running red lights, it's inconvient to go to traffic court.

They point out cars are different, but do it too many times in a car and you don't have a license. When regulating something that anyone can do without a license, fines are just a tax that poor people can't afford

Like, if anything they should be arguing for everyone who runs red lights to need to be inconvienced and spend a day in court

Instead they're arguing no one should have to do that

Which kind of runs against their narrative, but even reading it twice I still don't understand how running a red lights on a bicycle makes anything safer... Especially for the cyclist.