Toltec .. this observation is really down to a mass disobedience by many cyclists.
Whilst we could all decide which rules to obey the reality is that the roads need predictable behaviours and obedient people to make them safer. I agree that we need proper and appropriate rules too.
If the rules need reviewing and re-assessing then that is another thing.
There has been much campaigning against the length of red lights and the change that all pedestrians can go at any side of the junction at once than as previously, cross on only one or two roads than all 'arms' of the junctions at once.
Our psychology is interrupted if no one appears to be making progress. Whilst we tolerate and accept people need to cross the road, at 3am when the lights turn red for no reason that that it is a bad system where a programmer 'thinks' that the light ought to change just in case is very frustrating.
We all know that frustration and inattention are the two prime causes of accidents so these issues must be addressed and properly sorted out to reduce this bad effect.
Hypothetically ...
So what if we said that a cyclist ought to be clubbed with the 'pedestrian' and only allowed on pavements and never the road?
Should we then also say that all mopeds and motorbikes ought to be given all the cyclists lanes and also allowed on the pavements too when the roads offer them no 'route through'?
How far ought it to be taken ?
People are very good at 'gaining an advantage' when they can. In many ways it's how we as the human race have managed to achieve so very much.
I dare say that at some future point new rules and regs will be altered or introduced but until then the rules must be obeyed.
There seems to be little regulation for cyclists, we have great one's and down right appalling one's.
I like the idea (with few exceptions) that all traffic lights be off after say 8pm or some such.
Nearly all roundabout traffic lights ought to be removed or only on for very limited time periods. All could be resolved with 'intelligent' systems or better yet left perhaps like the French so on yellow all night (waste of electricity though!) or just by being off, so that all the riders and drivers have to
think about when it is safe to proceed.