Traffic lights

[Twigman]

The red light's only for cars isn't it?

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[Cyclopathic]

If presented with temporary lights at road works that are stuck on red shining your light at the trafic light unit will sometimes work as they have a lght sensor in them. Obviously this only really applies in the dark.

If I was stuck at ordinary lights that refused to change then I would cross them but be careful about it. There has to be times when you just rely on your common sense and evaluate the various factors and make a descision.

 

[Black Sheep]

laying your bike across the sensor apparently can work


personally, I go slowly and give way to anything and everything - remember, other traffic may not be aware that the lights aren't changing to let you through.

 

[Tim Hall]

If presented with temporary lights at road works that are stuck on red shining your light at the trafic light unit will sometimes work as they have a lght sensor in them. Obviously this only really applies in the dark.

Except the thing you (and many others) think is a light sensor, isn't. It's a microwave radar gadget (Microwave Vehicle Detector). Clapping your hands is just as effective in "making" the lights change.

 

[fimm]

I have this problem on my commute. I use the shared bus cycle lane for part of it, and the road is set up so there two traffic lights, one for the bus lane, one for the single carriageway road. There is no 'junction' per se. Its designed so that the second a bus pulls up, the lights for the traffic go red and let the bus through. The bus lane then ends about 20 metres further down and merges with the main traffic lane. ...
This is the one set up where even I RLJ, and I can't see an issue with it. Even the most anal policeman would surely agree!

I go through a set similar to this on one of my regular training routes, and just run the red (with care) - it is usually fairly quiet, often there are no cars around anyway.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

If presented with temporary lights at road works that are stuck on red shining your light at the trafic light unit will sometimes work as they have a lght sensor in them

Not for the last 20+ years they haven't.