Red light runners are ruining the planet

What is it with you people? Who the hell gave you such a sense of entitlement that you feel the rules of the road do not apply to your highness? I am not talking about squeezing the pink by slipping through under the cautionary yellow and the red light catches you midway. I mean you pricks that run right through the light after it has changed to RED. We all have those times where we might misjudge just how long that yellow light is going to hold out for us. Not excusing it, but I know it happens to all of us. What I want to know is how did we let it get so bad that now 3, 4, even 5 cars blow through an intersection, or people who clearly cannot exit an intersection, feel justified in entering and blocking it just to save a minute or two. Here's some advice, leave your house earlier, if you're racing to get somewhere, or get there a few minutes later and help your blood pressure, and the health of the rest of us who are law-abiding and courteous. We have several bad intersections in Seminole Heights, particularly along Hillsborough Avenue on either side of the Interstate. People pull into and block Central Avenue on nearly every cycle of the light. People blow through the red light at Florida 2 or 3 at a time. All of these things might save the perpetrator a minute or two, but in the grand scheme costs all of us by domino effect exponentially more time. I dare say that there has to bea very measurable economic and enviromental impact by the scofflaws when you factor the time, money spent on fuel and maintenance, the health care of increased stress, the spewing of that many more exhaust chemicals. The other day, I was driving west on Hillsborough, and traffic was backed up all the way past Armenia, stop and go. This was somewhat, but still near rush hour. Guess what the traffic was caused by. An accident, nope, a huge number of cars, not really, it was caused by a bunch of irresponsible, inconsiderate nincompoops on Himes to squeeze out one more light cycle and block Hillsborough. After that intersection, there was no traffic. Now all this backup on Hillsborough, was causing additional traffic on Armenia. Theres a chain reaction that spreads out the effect of these seemingly isolated events to impact traffic miles away. So next time you're considering running a red light, or blocking an intersection, think about it for a second. Was that two minutes worth it?