Scooter and red lights

[bogan]

+1 with technology that can strip you naked with out removing an item of clothing employed at airports I'm pretty darn sure a better solution can be found here. If they are unwilling to find or pay for the solution then suck it up and let those on two wheels proceed through a red when the way is clear

It's easier than that, just reprogram them with timers. The problem is TPTB do not see this as a significant problem, so nobody is even looking for solutions, much less doing any cost/benefit analyses on them.

[Owl]

Wouldn't a few neodymium magnets attached, sort this issue? Or is that just an urban legend?

[rastuscat]

Why can't we just get rid of traffic lights, and stick some roundabouts in? Not only are they more fun to negotiate, polution will be less. Only place they don't work too well is when there is a heavy flow of traffic in one direction.

I wouldn't want to count the number of times I'm stuck at a light, often with others, while the green way is completely devoid of traffic, but the light thinks it's best to keep us idling... even at night.

Best idea I've seen in years. Remove all traffic controls, then tell people to sort it out for themself.

In a short space of time people would learn to do self preservation, instead of relying on rules that nobody complies with anyway.

It's been done in some towns in Europe, and has been shown to reduce crashes.

http://www.salon.com/technology/feat...ign/print.html

[rastuscat]

rastuscat sounds like you are looking at the problem too much from the authoritarian angle.

Quite agree, to my own detriment.

Must learn to be a bit lawless. Not sure how that'll fit with the uniform, but it'll probably cause me less stress.

No problemo with constructive criticism, especially when I look in the mirror and agree with it.

Donuts 4 eva

[bogan]

Wouldn't a few neodymium magnets attached, sort this issue? Or is that just an urban legend?

Good question, the steel in a car changes the permittivity of the coil/electromagnet, which is the measure of resistance to forming a magnetic field. Although it seems conceivable like bringing your own will help, I think the superposition principal applies to electromagnetism, so while there is more of a feild there if you bring a magnet, the coil has to work just as hard to set one up as well.

In short, up to fuck all.

[Mad-V2]

If you go through the same lights every day and get stuck waiting alot, you can always glue the walkway button in, or poke a stick in it so that it stays in.
The lights will cycle through constantly that way.

[cheshirecat]

Was taking a minicab along the A40 out of London one eve. The A40 is two lanes full of lights which is great if you can get them in sequence but purgatory otherwise (indeed purgatory all the time) and the geezer came up to a green and slammed on his brakes, causing the whites of the eyes of the driver behind to shine up like a lighthouse. I asked, 'asked' being a simplified translation, what he was doing and he said his brother was a cab driver and always ran the reds -to which there was no real answer at the time, but I sure as hell treated green lights a bit different on the bike around Acton.

[haydes55]

Serious problem with the solution. If you dismount a vehicle you are illegally parking that vehicle, breaking a law. secondly you are walking across a road within a few meters of a crossing and not using it, therefore you are jaywalking which is also illegal.

^ That is from my understanding of the law. If I parked a car on the road got out grabbed my mail from the letterbox then drove off I would be breaking the law.

[Flip]

Best idea I've seen in years. Remove all traffic controls, then tell people to sort it out for themself.

In a short space of time people would learn to do self preservation, instead of relying on rules that nobody complies with anyway.

It's been done in some towns in Europe, and has been shown to reduce crashes.

http://www.salon.com/technology/feat...ign/print.html

Won't ever happen here because of the revenue the Rozza and the Govt can make from the red light cameras.

[Pixie]

Easy fix: Lights that are known not to respond to scooters need to have their crossing buttons stuck in the "on" position with superglue.
This will need to be reapplied each time the "on" button is "repaired".

[Swoop]

Easy fix: Lights that are known not to respond to scooters need to have their crossing buttons stuck in the "on" position with superglue.
This will need to be reapplied each time the "on" button is "repaired".

Much like parking meters...