bloody lights

[rocket_richie]

im sick of the ffooking trafic lights that dont sence ur ther till a car comes along i waited 8 mins today till a car came along and BING green light. i wud have run thru them but its on a cross road so dident want to end up as road kill.
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[MarkJ]

i now it propr sux lyke

[McGee]

I swear down.

What you do .... you listning blud ?

Is you right proper pin it and go thrw it init. BraaP!


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[nick606]

[Jack_Cheese]

Park on the tarmac parallelogram which is outlined by tar. It should be anywhere between 1-5m before the lights. It's right where the ferrous metal sensor is buried

Jack
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[Finglonga]

Just parking on it won't do it as its an induction loop its as useful as flashing your headlights when waiting at lights to trigger them. Its the approach to it that triggers it. Too slow and it wont sense the bike is there.
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[Jack_Cheese]

However, a rotating steel crank with a piston, conrod and flywheel attached does the trick of setting it off rather nicely!
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[Dazbo666]

[Dazbo666]

[Finglonga]

[peppa pig]

I have the same problem with the traffic lights when I'm coming out of uni, I either have to hope a car is leaving at the same time or dice with death crossing when hopefully theres nothing coming

[stinkwheel]

If there's a pedestrian crossing, reach over and press the button. Should make the lights cycle.

If not, phone the council roads department, explain the problem, tell them exactly where it is and ask them nicely if they can turn up the gain on the sensor. Then send them a copy of what was discussed in writing 'for reference' (judging by your post, I'd suggest you get someone to check your spelling and grammar first) .

They are almost certainly not aware this is a problem so it's a bit unfair to whinge about it until you've given them a chance to rectify the fault. If, after you've told them, nothing is done, feel free to kick up shit.
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[beast rider]

What you want to do is put the bike on side stand, then walk over and push the button for the crossing (if it has one) the when the lights change for the pedestrians, get off you bike and walk it through the junction.

[veeeffarr]

[KTM Gordo]

Yup: look for the sensor that's in the road surface and stop on top of it - even if it's a couple of metres away from the stop line.

Some are very bad at picking up 'bikes, so if yours refuses to change then tell your council highways department. In theory they should be able to detect bicycles too.

Also, some lights are set up to detect specific vehicles only. When I was working in Portsmouth there was a set of lights that was designed to detect buses only. Anything else would trigger the sensor, but there was a "penalty delay" of eight minutes on it to stop people driving through the bus only bit. Trouble is, the buses got stuck in the queue too
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