Weird. I wonder if this is primarily a problem in larger, more congested cities where people tend to drive more aggressively. I live in a smaller city where we've had these a very long time, and they don't seem to inspire the kind of behavior they're talking about here. But driving here is also significantly less aggressive than somewhere like, say, Chicago.
I wonder if there's any weight to that assertion of a correlation between city size and aggression.
I live in London and I generally find that the behaviour is surprisingly courteous. My suspicion is that it's because many (most?) roads are actually too narrow to have two cars pass at the same time so people are very used to having to pull over to get out of each other's way.
Obviously, all totally anecdotal, but there must be some research on it.
I'm sure culture matters a lot - here in DC, there's no stigma or enforcement against running a red light or blocking the box so people do it all the time. This kind of behaviour is completely unsurprising but will probably reverse as the number of red light cameras goes up significantly.
