Unfriendly traffic lights are unfriendly

[tigertim20]

two ways I have found around insensitive lights.
1) put bike in nuetral, put stand down, lean bike over and push the weight of it onto the stand. seems to work at a lot of lights that do not otherwise detect me.
2) look left, look right, dump the clutch and hit the gas

[St_Gabriel]

its a electro magnetic sensor
find the cut in the road and aim for the centre

Yup, Hayd3n is on to it, induction loop is the correct term and picks up on the magnetic field induced by the vehicle. Either proceed safely through them on red (would doubt the red light camera would activate if it wont activate the light sequence, though they may operate on different sytems) as the lights are obviously faulty, and notify council at earliest convenience or if you regulalrly have an issue, permanently attach a rare earth magnet to the bottom of you boot and place you foot on the ground in the sensing area when you approach the intersection.

[Erelyes]

Inductive loops they are. Should only be a problem if they're out of tune or you're on a plastic bike.

[bogan]

Wouldn't it be easy enough to have a motion sensor built into the base of the light box that picks up the movement of an approaching vehicle?

Wouldn't it be easy for some cunt to stick their chewing gum on the sensor and piss off a lot of people

Best advice in thread goes to mom/iyre and hayden, park on the inductive loops, and if that doesn't work tell the council!

[Erelyes]

Wouldn't it be easy for some cunt to stick their chewing gum on the sensor and piss off a lot of people

Best advice in thread goes to mom/iyre and hayden, park on the inductive loops, and if that doesn't work tell the council!

In my younger years as a larrakin living in Wellington, we duct taped the pedestrian call button, on the lights at the Basin end of the terraces, on boy racer night....

[hayd3n]

In my younger years as a larrakin living in Wellington, we duct taped the pedestrian call button, on the lights at the Basin end of the terraces, on boy racer night....

ba ha ha ha i miss welly

[kevie]

There was an article in a recent "LONGRIDERS MAGAZINE" issue regarding some UsA sttes changing the law so if a motorcycle was sitting at the traffic lights for a 'reasonable time' without them getting the green, then the motorcycle was legally allowed to proceed providing it was safe to do so..... dam good idea I recon

I contacted the waikato council re the Tainui Bridge road/SH1 lights, when making a right onto Tainui the lights dont sense my bike is there, they emailed back and said the lights are regularly checked so there should be no problem .... like Doh ..... I tell them there is, but there may be too much plastic nowadays in my Jappo lmao, should do a cruise round there over the weekend and see if it still refuses to know Im there.

[skinman]

there is one in howick & several in onehunga that dont detect bikes so I wait 2 cycles then pin it (checking for cops first of cause) & if a 250kg plus bike is not going to set them off what the f, the detection system must be crap

[ellipsis]

...did a u turn in friday eve rush hour traffic on Moorhouse Ave in Chch, a couple of decades ago...the last drop of the day and I was driving a curtainsider that I hadn't driven before...I didnt notice anything out of the ordinary as I did this, probably cheeky and sneaky and at that hour, silly turn...got to the factory in central city, pulled in to the loading area and fuck me if there isn't a whole street light cluster through the curtain and in the truck...I unloaded the paint at the factory and drove back to the yard expecting flashing lights and irate people yelling at me to pull over, but it didn't happen...we had our friday night drink and never heard a thing about it again...quite odd we thought as the curtains had a big company logo on them...


...the moral of the story is perhaps...drive through them or over them, you may just stay lucky..

[Devil]

I was riding with a mate in Auckland City late one night. The light was red and we stopped and the pedestrian light instructed dem peds to start walking. Next thing my mate jumps off his bike and pushes it through the lights amoungst the pedestrians!!! I sat there waiting like a good boy.

He never did get any tickets in the mail haha

This is quite legal. Just like pushing a bicycle. This has come up before and I think from a particular instance the police preferred that you switched the bike off and walked it.

[Ender EnZed]

What about at traffic lights that have no pedestrian button? Presumably with no button to press then jaywalking is impossible and a pedestrian can cross at any time as long as nothing is coming.

Does that mean it'd be legal to walk your bike across, say, this intersection, whenever you like?

[swbarnett]

What about at traffic lights that have no pedestrian button? Presumably with no button to press then jaywalking is impossible and a pedestrian can cross at any time as long as nothing is coming.

Does that mean it'd be legal to walk your bike across, say, this intersection, whenever you like?

Given the lack of footpaths at that intersection you'll probably find that peds aren't supposed to be there anyway.

[Scuba_Steve]

What about at traffic lights that have no pedestrian button? Presumably with no button to press then jaywalking is impossible and a pedestrian can cross at any time as long as nothing is coming.

Does that mean it'd be legal to walk your bike across, say, this intersection, whenever you like?

No, if there is no button to press pedestrians must obey the traffic lights i.e. if the vehicles are on red then so too are pedestrians, once they go green pedestrians have right of way... But see if your avg car driver will understand the law, or better yet for your own safety Don't!

[Tazz]

What about at traffic lights that have no pedestrian button? Presumably with no button to press then jaywalking is impossible and a pedestrian can cross at any time as long as nothing is coming.

Does that mean it'd be legal to walk your bike across, say, this intersection, whenever you like?

No. Nice try though.

[Ender EnZed]

Given the lack of footpaths at that intersection you'll probably find that peds aren't supposed to be there anyway.

It's not a motorway though; no reason they shouldn't be there.

No, if there is no button to press pedestrians must obey the traffic lights i.e. if the vehicles are on red then so too are pedestrians, once they go green pedestrians have right of way.

Right. Which means a pedestrian can't legally cross at lights without a button unless there's a vehicle to trigger the phase change. I guess it's not that hard to walk 20m down the road.