Yes, it is!

Financial cost wise only

With all the overpopulating of South Fl., some rural & spacial areas the politicians have designed more condos/housing, that even drivers are suffering a lot more as well. While I have no automobile, I do have to use roommate’s for Vet. visits. On one such visit, I decide to also travel to nearest post office (thumbs up for only USPS), should take at most 30-45-minutes, only because of so many stop signs, took 2±hrs… There was the only north/south mixed use (bicyclist, public buses, emergency vehicles & supposed to be only unmotorized pedestrians), separated & continuous roadway, with traffic lighted-push button crosswalks intersections, that forced me wait for 5-separate public buses to ride up (separately), wait & ride through, before able to drive through, NOT A SINGLE BICYCLIST CAUSING THE DELAY. Traffic after that just to cross or turn onto US1, line of automobiles from before mixed use pedestrian roadway to connecting intersection to US1. Then there was tons of rosd construction, which like most greater cities areas, South Fl. is famous for. I called our information line, we can no longer connect straight to public services & at least my commissioner dismiss helping to get stuff done with other public services, & was able file a complaint. What good that does, no idea.

I agree with your reply, what I would assume is true, but never seen a bicyclist pulled-over & given a ticket. South Fl.

Okay, I assume that is what is done, everywhere, no?

I seen this done by all types of people, but becoming less frequent because of such people/drivers, in the cities. Never seen a ticket given, I think there are no laws against it, when done with no traffic, just like jaywalking.

“Each stop is like another 100m travel.” That is a joke right? There is no distance added, very little time added for pushing a button, for bicyclist. By the way, you have read that what I suggested was automatically, after activated, going from Green-Yellow-Red. Automobiles would have to have time to come to a stop. Going from Green to Red would be a safety issue for automobiles & bicyclists crossing.

Obviously, with I creating this, I agree, but the difference of pushing a button & approach sensors to do the same amount of time when activated, is nothing time wise important.
Also, that is when the whole switch for bicyclists given ride of way system works, not uncommon here for them to not work.

Maybe, but in bicyclists experiences here, are just riding on roadways of heavy traffic & taking what the state laws are, it does not matter. That is why when I can, in cities, take sidewalks. I have had motorists just hate that I take whole foot from curve & ride around damage on roadways, it is nearly all our roadways (here it is fixed only before elections, by county), ride around the damage, or object(s), or in worst cases/most travelled by automobiles roadways ride around most damaged parts.

You what, we might be thinking off different bicycle lanes, sorry. We have, South Fl., only three, 1-completely separated from automobiles, but mixed pedestrians use with next to no protective barriers, some public buses that are separated in inside lane, not for bicyclists & in the bicyclists path, non-motorized pedestrians- traveling by feet, when people are following the rules, but it is super restrictive path/north & south & is so far away from our Ag. & Rural-Unincorporated area, that is it. Mostly just for not using US1, which is right next to it. 1-not separated at all, just lines painted on the road, on the right of farthest right lane & 1-REALLY IS NOT FOR BICYCLIST, almost completely just grass, never rode it, because it is the long & back country beautiful route & risk tire punctures. Really, it is for horse riders & ATVs-Dirt Bikes. Mostly, when it comes to the mostly used non-separated bicyclists lane, I used the safer option of sidewalks, but they are non-existent until cities.
You are talking about carefully going from bicyclists lane to the traffic and back to bicyclists lane, so you are probably using just lines painted on the ground bicyclists lane or it would waste more time?
I have had annoyed automobiles drivers do dangerous actions, like when I started played chicken. So much so that I had to contact cops, about the risk to my health, they stationed a cop car hidden at every other connecting East/West lanes (best way I can put it), just for one-night. Saw pulling over the violators, ended the chicken BLANK. The annoying behaviors got better, on the least traffic roads, when I rode the same least possible traffic ways enough, took the whole foot from the curve, that some bicyclist are scared to do & yelled at automobiles violators what the laws are. The drivers & home owners got to know me, then in my unincorporated area the reverse happened. That is right I actually had automobiles stop wait for me enter spot sign intersections & allow me to be first to ride through.

While  I really hate overpopulation of areas-towns-cities-counties-states-countries is one-thing, because of horrible conditions for The Livable Earth & Living Beings, horrible places for members of our species to live…

I disagree with this, it is unfair to poorer people that still have to find a way into still overpopulated areas & can be done in other & better ways.
Overpopulation is the problem & this does not address that problem, just makes it harder for people to get to jobs & other needed activities.

Starts with raising taxes on Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes, then:
Condition benefits for having children, so that stops after 1st birthed child & 1st-adopted child,
No more immigration allowed, no jail in USA-ship back enforcement, but Everyone in USA are legal, no need for any more legal or illegal people in the country crap, Only the vote of the people can any Gov. violence-wars be done,
All that start any degree of violence-war in another country, just like if it was in The USA, then arrested & appear in court, when convicted go to jail
& Pay directly every single country’s people (not politicians), we have done violence-wars in their country, $100 of Billions
&
Raise gas prices, like EU,
&
Raise the amount of space, in 3-dimensions (not just on ground level dimension) to building ratio, if the buildings already, then they must be removed. Destroy bad condition buildings, build only replacement buildings elsewhere, where are more space. Also creating more space for green spaces.

So in France bicyclist are allowed to ride through intersections when traffic lights are red for their direction, telling the traffic where bicyclists are riding from to stop, but bicyclists can ride through?

The lack of critical thinking causing me to reply with this is unbelievable,

To all those repliers-readers claiming that pushing the crosswalk button to cause the traffic lights to automatically go from green to yellow and then red, stopping the automobiles sooner, for the bicyclists wanting to cross, eliminates the benefits to The Livable Earth & Living Beings. As I have already said, in other reply, it does not because the automobiles were going to stop & go any ways, or there is no need to press the crosswalk button in the first place, can just ride through an empty enough intersections.

Another huge benefit if my idea was done, then more people would be incentivized to use a bicycle, run, jog or/& walk, instead of using any vehicle (even greener electric & Etc. vehicles) is way greener, in many ways.

Sure, I do not think it is illegal, unlike Jaywalking. I go if there are no automobiles, but with South Fl.’s southern areas population always increasing*, there are lesser & lesser chances that there are no automobiles.

*- With the northern areas (more political power) getting the state-county politicians to building a ton of cheap condos-houses in formerly lesser populated density-traffic southern areas & away from northern areas’ tourist & their already high population density-traffic for ever increasing low-minimum wage workers to live away from northern areas,

You are not thinking straight, the automobiles are going to have to stop, it is just having them stop earlier. Not increasing the the stopping & starting of the automobiles. Holding back insulting sarcasm.

Absolutely not

What big deal is having switch? Sure it would be cool, if it was done by censors sensing our bicycles riding-up. But would barely save any time, when they located at the beginning of the crosswalks/beginning of the intersections. Is that avoidance not wasting more time, let alone endangering you more?

I have, I am replying to this comment.

I agree the problem is not the 1% of bicyclist, but the huge amount of horrible drivers out there.

I disagree, because it depends upon the roadways & areas you live in. There is a roadway, in South Florida which is the most dangerous, my surrounding county is the most dangerous & Fl. the most dangerous, in The USA!

That is just stupid as BLANK! Even with perfect drivers, something mechanical could cause a dangerous situation & no escape available. Really what protrayed in the video is perfectly/dream land.

“And if you’re forced to ride on roads without any cycling infrastructure, his way is the best option. Best option, other than not doing that at all.”

I agree with everything else you said, but that is crazy. If something dangerous is happening you have no where to escape to. Ride on the edge & escape to off the roadway. I have had to do that often

‘Walking While Black’, in my South Fl. rides I tell you driving on sidewalk or even parking on sidewalks enforcement is non-existent.

I do not know exactly what you mean by lore, I am guessing you mean ‘Star Wars’ legend (for lack of better word), but let me say it does even matter to my point, so I would just concede what you are saying is true.

My overriding point, which I thought was obvious, especially with the, just tiny sample of many cases, examples I gave, that peace activism works! It might take the time (but really should not take time, time is really based upon the peace activist commitments to their goals & the amount of them; Anotherwards, it takes patience & relative to perspective & understanding of the reality) & after achieved, be ready to take on others (internal, external or combination of both), but it works!
Yet in ‘Star Wars’ (almost all other SciFi entertainment one can think of, let alone ‘Star Trek’) the creators rush right pass, not even portraying it is possibility, or (as you say happened in ‘Star Wars’) through a ridiculously short attempts at it. That big BLANKING problem! Insulting to people power & peaceful protest!