Lights stuck on red - how long do you wait?

Lights stuck on red - how long do you wait?

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soad

33,029 posts

179 months

Friday 28th June
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Roadworks ones seem to be fair game, seen it all.

grumpyscot

1,283 posts

195 months

The TTLs placed in our street were stuck on red for two weeks from the moment they installed them to when they removed them. Phone calls resulted in supervisor coming out - he said the lights were detecting traffic. But when they deinstalled them, they discover that our set had never been wifi linked to the master control!! A police car had been in our street during the escapade, and sat at the lights for fully 10 minutes.I took pity and told them the lights were stuck, so they then drove through.

The lights were then moved to anther street................. and stayed stuck on red for another two weeks! Until someone stuck a black plastic bag over them!

nute

706 posts

110 months

Yesterday (18:18)
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RazerSauber said:
When I first left my local German supermarket that may or may not be similar to the word "small", I was on my motorbike. The exit is at a cross roads. I watched 3 cycles of other traffic going through with no luck on me being seen so I waited for a red light and went between cycles. Wasn't waiting any longer. I've since discovered that it's a problem and not a blip. Cyclists and motorcyclists have no chance. I have to pull through the red light and get a car behind me to approach the line to trigger the lights.
The lights at the bottom of my road don’t sense my bike, I either have to go through on red or wait until a car comes up behind me and the induction sensor in the road figures out that someone is waiting. The odd occasion when I’m leaving home very early if could be 15 mins before another car comes by.

OutInTheShed

8,116 posts

29 months

Yesterday (18:37)
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nute said:
The lights at the bottom of my road don’t sense my bike, I either have to go through on red or wait until a car comes up behind me and the induction sensor in the road figures out that someone is waiting. The odd occasion when I’m leaving home very early if could be 15 mins before another car comes by.
I think this could possibly be the only reason for people buying steel bikes?
Ali bike? Iffy
Carbon bike? No chance!