I imagine these people trying to get to heaven, but their path is continually thwarted by the same lights they foisted on the rest of us.

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Originally posted by egregore:
While riding a motorcycle in Sacramento, CA, I was at an intersection of a freeway off-ramp and surface street and waited - and waited, and waited - probably 15 minutes for the red light I was stopped at to change. A cop stopped and waved me through. Apparently there was an embedded magnetic loop sensor controlling the light that my bike (much lower mass than a car, and much of that aluminum) would not activate. This was an area on the outskirts of the city, in the middle of the day in the middle of the week, and traffic was very light, not to mention 40 years ago.

Like PASig mentioned if the light doesn't trigger after two cycles just proceed through when it's clear.

A trick for motorcyclists to trigger the magnetic sensor embedded in the road is to stop and deploy the side stand right on the loop, unless your bike happens to have an aluminum stand which I believe is pretty rare. I think those magnetic sensors are going away being replaced with camera sensors which are cheaper and more reliable.

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Originally posted by bendable:
There is a street in Moline that has 11 stop lights in a 30 m.p.h. zone

The other day we hit all greens , the whole way doing
37 m.p.h.

And this just in, in Moline today a city engineer was fired for incompetence after allowing a car to go above 30 mph.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
I think those magnetic sensors are going away being replaced with camera sensors which are cheaper and more reliable.

They started putting in cameras my county in September of 2022. Every single intersection with cameras is CF because they aren’t using them at all for light control; just timed and the timing sucks. As an example, I have three lights in a half mile. You cannot get a green on any of them so it’s an extra 6 minutes to get through and I do that 6 times a day. The trip to church used to be 10 minutes, now it’s between 15 and 20, luckily that’s only a couple of times a week.

I usually treat a malfunctioning stoplight like a stop sign after a long enough period of time, clearly something is wrong. You actually waited for 15 minutes? That’s insane.
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Oncoming traffic was doing about sixty comming off the interstate. They were traveling up a hill which made distance judging more difficult. The lane to the right of me had traffic doing about fifty which would have made cutting in very difficult.

BTW how long do you wait at RR crossings? Last year the crossing bells without a gate were going off. There was a locomotive sitting on the tracks about 100 yards away to the left, Nothing to the right that they could see. Well the Amtrak passenger train was doing about 80 from the other direction. Driver and passenger were both killed.

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Originally posted by bendable:
There is a street in Moline that has 11 stop lights in a 30 m.p.h. zone

The other day we hit all greens , the whole way doing
37 m.p.h.

19th Avenue, in San Francisco, is like this; however, it's much easier to chain the lights together going north than it is going south. I've only ever made it a few times going south while going north is almost always guaranteed, so long as the traffic is light.

Colorado Springs has an app, where you can do all sorts of complaints to the city. I've started reporting all the bad light timings. I also have an email address: signaltiming@coloradosprings.gov just in case anyone else in the area wants to report a problem.

This guy popped up on my YouTube suggested videos. I'm retired and have time on my hands so I watched several of his videos. (I'm not sure but I think he might be in Mississippi.)

It's amazing what is on YouTube.



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We have the technology to shoot a robot to Mars, and once there, it drives around and sends us live tv of the place. But we cant design a traffic signal that wont make you wait on red.... When there is no crossing traffic!

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
We have the technology to shoot a robot to Mars, and once there, it drives around and sends us live tv of the place. But we cant design a traffic signal that wont make you wait on red.... When there is no crossing traffic!

Classic false comparison logical fallacy.

Technicians in the city/county road department have a snowball's chance in hell of shooting a robot to Mars and only sometimes correctly do something that is actually their job (e.g. program and maintain a traffic light).

Engineers at SpaceX and NASA can definitely shoot a robot to Mars and probably in an afternoon both learn how to program a traffic light and write the best traffic light algorithm that city/county has ever seen. However, the taxpayers for that city/county are unlikely willing to adequately compensate that level of talent.

Thank you, Todd

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We have the technology to shoot a robot to Mars, and once there, it drives around and sends us live tv of the place.

A couple of those crashed, too, one because somebody mixed up feet and inches with meters.