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Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

Anecdotally, I see a lot of cyclists deciding whether they are cars or pedestrians or fully-above-the-law depending on the convenience of the situation. Like shooting diagonally across an intersection, last second, because they can.

but that’s a 100% logical response to a system that alternately requires you to be a car or a pedestrian, based on whichever is more convenient to other people, and often at the risk of your own safety.