trarffic light sensors

[thehollowmen]

so tonight four of us got stuck in the center of town at red lights

*headdesk*
nobody could get a car up behind us to change the lights so we had to run it.. minutes later red and blue were flashing (this was right beside the police station)

explained the predicament and he said that we should next time get off our bikes and press the pedestrian button :-o

and what.. leave our bikes running?
O_o

[sAsLEX]

they go out of their way to disrupt the traffic. I'm sure they monitor the camera's and play with the traffic lights just to try to make their meaningless, insignificant jobs a bit more fun.

Like at 0800 on a sunday morning and all the lights are still on the same timing as peak hour traffic so can end up waiting for no other traffic for bloody ages

oh and the other good one is green phases that last like a few fractions of a nano second only allowing one or two of the backed up thousands to get through!

Thank god for filtering!

Doesn't matter if it's not ferrous.Anything that can have an eddy current induced in it will trigger the system.ie as long as it's conductive.

But steel is betterer

[thehollowmen]

Like at 0800 on a sunday morning and all the lights are still on the same timing as peak hour traffic so can end up waiting for no other traffic for bloody ages

The whole of sunday down here is considered off peak and is untimed induction trigged ...

[sunhuntin]

so tonight four of us got stuck in the center of town at red lights

*headdesk*
nobody could get a car up behind us to change the lights so we had to run it.. minutes later red and blue were flashing (this was right beside the police station)

explained the predicament and he said that we should next time get off our bikes and press the pedestrian button :-o

and what.. leave our bikes running?
O_o

so would you have to walk the bikes through, or ride them?? neither seems sensible really!

think the ones here are pads, not sure though. i have found a couple of times the lights are set to return green for the direction im travelling, but not always. when i finished at midnight, i used to always go down the mainstreet, but soon was able to pick which lights were suitable and which werent, which meant i had to take a different route entirely, dammit. since my exemption specified "most direct route possible" it meant i couldnt go the light-free roads. doubt our council would listen either...mr laws is too busy writing shitty letters to the paper! LOL.

[raster]

I tend to do a stoppie and then jump up and down on the bike while reving the shit out of it in the square.
Works for me everytime.

I get some strange looks from time to time for some reason.

[Drum]

I would be very surprised to hear that there are still pressure pads in operation. Im only aware of inductance being used for vehicle actuation now. Happy to stand corrected though.

Some sets of signals also have advance loops approx 30m ahead of the limit line. These can detect an approaching vehicle and either extend the green phase, or initiate a new green phase if no vehicles have been detected elsewhere in the intersection. These are generally much safer, but due to the additional cost are more common on Transit controlled roads rather than local council roads.

This 30m zone is called the "dilemma zone". That distance where if the signal turns yellow, the driver has to decide wether to go for it or not.

[Swoop]

I had a Korean student a couple of years ago who SWORE that ALL traffic lights were monitored by cameras!!! When the person monitoring the cameras saw a car waiting, then the lights would turn green...

[skidMark]

I tend to do a stoppie and then jump up and down on the bike while reving the shit out of it in the square.
Works for me everytime.

I get some strange looks from time to time for some reason.

ahahahahaahahahaaa stoppies who me never **bad habbit i know** hehe

they are a pain in the ass ...one thing i really hate about the way roading is designed that turning lanes and straight ahead trafiic lanes are combined alot of the time.... ie.

im wanting to turn left i have a left arrow but the guy in front wants to go straight he sitting at a red light....

which means i have to go round him.... then go across the fron't if i was in a car i would be pretty pissed because i would have to wait for the straight ahead light to go green before i can turn....

also what the hell is wrong with some lights....

they go green left aroow for example and you go to turn and the damn pedestrian crossing is telling them to walk i mean honestly how fing retarded nearly taken some of the straglers out on occasion i mean im turning i don't see the logic in having a pedestrian crossing saying cross right infront of me ...

when i have a green arrow

somebody is going to or many probably already have been seriously injured by this fault of design...



now im done : done:

Cheers: MA

[Drum]

........also what the hell is wrong with some lights....

they go green left aroow for example and you go to turn and the damn pedestrian crossing is telling them to walk i mean honestly how fing retarded nearly taken some of the straglers out on occasion i mean im turning i don't see the logic in having a pedestrian crossing saying cross right infront of me ...

when i have a green arrow

somebody is going to or many probably already have been seriously injured by this fault of design...

If you encounter this situation it is a design or programming error and does not meet the AUS/ NZ standard.
Pedestrian movements are permitted to the left hand side of traffic with a standard green aspect, but not if a green left turn arrow is activated.
You should report this situation to the council, as they will be liable if a pedestrian gets hit.

One point to note is that the road regulations require you to give way to a pedestrian in the roadway, regardless of wether they are crossing legally or not. i.e. If they are crossing illegally you must still stop/ avoid them.

[Pixie]

Like at 0800 on a sunday morning and all the lights are still on the same timing as peak hour traffic so can end up waiting for no other traffic for bloody ages

oh and the other good one is green phases that last like a few fractions of a nano second only allowing one or two of the backed up thousands to get through!

Thank god for filtering!



But steel is betterer

You're buggered if you're in a late model jag

[Phurrball]

(snip)
This 30m zone is called the "dilemma zone". That distance where if the signal turns yellow, the driver has to decide wether to go for it or not.

Mwahhahaha! Who came up with that nomenclature? That cracks me up! Apparently it's only a dilemma in Auckland if the light is already red...

[sunhuntin]

I had a Korean student a couple of years ago who SWORE that ALL traffic lights were monitored by cameras!!! When the person monitoring the cameras saw a car waiting, then the lights would turn green...

i used to think that when i was a kid! LOL. wish that was true...would make our lives easier!!

followed a car down the mainstreet the other night...bout 9.30ish. by the time we reached the bottom, i was right behind him. he was sitting on a red, so i stayed back a bit to avoid coming to a complete stop. light went green just as i tucked in behind him. i wasnt even half way across the intersection and it went orange. how frickin pathetic. if id been furthur back, i would have been stuck.

when im sittin to turn left, and a pedestrian has right of way to cross at the same time [annoying!] if they are on the other side of the road, i dont bother waiting...by the time they get across, the light would have likely gone red again. if they are standing next to me to cross, i will of course wait.

mum said they use pads here...but isnt sure if theyve updated it or not, so i might ask around and get back to ya, lol.

[sAsLEX]

You're buggered if you're in a late model jag

or a lotus........

[limmy]

yus, line yourself for the cut outs just shy (1m?) of the white lines.

I can trigger lights on my ~10kg aluminium racing bicycle.

I used to have this problem until i worked out that you just needed to stop roughly in the middle of the road.

[mops]

I used to have this problem until i worked out that you just needed to stop roughly in the middle of the road.

but usually (at least in auckland) in the middle of the road there is fresh water or coolant or tranny oil or engine oil all blended in into sluggish spliiery ss**t that stick to your tires...