Traffic lights not changing

[AllanB]

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[Mushu]

I found one set of lights in Christchurch to be particularly bad, corner of Springs Rd and Main South Rd. Particularly on the DR it took so long to change I've never seen the lights change without a car to trigger it. A couple of times I decided to wait and see how long it takes, after about 5 minutes a car showed up and triggered it anyway, both times, so I never did learn how long it takes.

I noticed on the instructable link above that in the comments someone said in Wisconsin they have a law which states that if a bike stops at a light for more than 1 minute it can then 'run' the light if it's safe to do so. Maybe a rule like that would be helpful in NZ, not that it would help me much now after having moved to oz.

[rastuscat]

Park yer bike. Get off, walk over and press the pedestrian cross button for your direction of travel.

Triggers the lights.

Just sayin.

[haydes55]

Park yer bike. Get off, walk over and press the pedestrian cross button for your direction of travel.



Triggers the lights.



Just sayin.

Illegal parking

[buggerit]

Park yer bike. Get off, walk over and press the pedestrian cross button for your direction of travel.

Triggers the lights.

Just sayin.

Reminds me of when I worked in Penrose in the mid 80s, used to have to cross gt sth road to head home 2 lanes both ways
bumper to bumper, used to shoot down footpath to pedestrian crossing and hit button and wait for all the traffic to stop,ride
accross it to my side then traffic free 2 lanes just for meI actually never saw a pedestrian on that crossing

[Berries]

Park yer bike. Get off, walk over and press the pedestrian cross button for your direction of travel.

On a bike you are a motorist. Pedestrian buttons are for pedestrians. If the RCA can't manage to have an intersection that recognises a motor vehicle then all bets are off. Wait 25 minutes for another vehicle to trigger the lights? Get fucked. Give it an acceptable amount of time with no opposing travel and then go for it. The definition of acceptable might have to be decided in court but then if you go through a red light when a cop is watching you deserve the ticket.

Ring the council and complain. If you are stopped on the loops and it doesn't register you it is either broken, out of tune, just shit or you are on a Hyobag. Whatever it is, something needs to change.

[Berries]

My question is, am I the only one so sick of waiting that I no longer do?

Aha.

Hyobag.

[Ninjacookie]

I had this happen at a set of lights in Ponsonby - was waiting almost 20 minutes for the damn lights to change which only happened once a car pulled up behind.

No, I have never ridden a hyosung - I'm too short to sit one!

[caspernz]

Oh heck, I even have this at one particular set of lights in my little runabout car. Soooo, being it's normally 03.30am when this happens...I treat it as an uncontrolled intersection when there's nobody coming. Not correct, but what's a guy to do?

[oneofsix]

Oh heck, I even have this at one particular set of lights in my little runabout car. Soooo, being it's normally 03.30am when this happens...I treat it as an uncontrolled intersection when there's nobody coming. Not correct, but what's a guy to do?

what response did you get when you complained to the roading authourity?

[caspernz]

what response did you get when you complained to the roading authourity?

It's on their to-do-list.

[oneofsix]

It's on their to-do-list.

Typical, more likely to put in a red light camera than fix the underlying issue in today's NZ, enforce compliance.

[xenothius]

anyone tried putting magnets on the bottom of their bikes?