It is legal for a bicyclist to run a red light in a specific circumstance (when the light is red but the pedestrian walk signal is lit). This has been a NYC law since 2019, but NYPD is still routinely giving tickets for this, and judges are routinely refusing to vacate them. I can understand a lone NYPD officer not being aware of the law (although I think 6 years is getting ridiculous). But the issue is also the DMV judges that, in some cases, have acknowledged the law but have claimed they have the power to ignore it as it is a NYC law and not NYS law. This argument is bewildering to me - if it was true then what is the reason for NYC laws to exist at all?

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/09/06/the-nypd-and-dmv-are-...

I feel very strongly about bicyclists running red lights, and I'm always the one looking like a nerd who stops at the light. But I am very concerned about bicyclists getting criminal summonses for them when our system of checks and balances is consistently not working even in the unambiguously legal cases.