In the UK cyclist are not allowed to go through red lights, however at some junction the safest time for a cyclist to move of when waiting in the advanced stop box at a red list is just before the light turns green. E.g after all the other “legs” have a red light and the cyclist can see that all traffic have stopped.

In is normal practise in some towns…

So a law allowing cyclists to treat a red light as a “stop” could work well, however I think the “come to a complete stop” needs to be enforced well.

We don’t have many “stop signs” in the UK, the ones we have are on junctions when you cannot see to “give way” without stopping, so in the UK I think cyclist should always stop at a “stop sign”.

In some parts of the EU, there are separate lights for cyclists at junctions that turn green a short time before the normal lights turn green, so letting all cyclists clear the junction before motor vehicles start moving. (The fact that in most of the UK the advanced stop lines for cyclists are ignored by car drivers so are worthless due to the lack of enforcement may make this pointless)