gaz
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Are you going to hit the green light?
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[QUOTE 2900252, member: 30090"]After a wee bit of googling, it's something to do with traffic flow where the flow of green lights means you have priority - I think. What's confusing though is that in the vid there appears to be no junction along the stretch of road.
Ah, I'll go and watch MOTD instead.[/quote]
Aren't you already past by the time it indicates you have priority? Like Bonj outpacing the mud flying off his back wheel...
Ah, I'll go and watch MOTD instead.[/quote]
Aren't you already past by the time it indicates you have priority? Like Bonj outpacing the mud flying off his back wheel...
snorri
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- East coast, up a bit.
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If the green lights at the side of the path are glowing beside you as you cycle along you can be assured the next set of traffic lights on your route will be green for you if you maintain your present speed. If the green lights are not glowing beside you, then it might be an idea to adjust your speed until you have greens beside you. It allows you to cycle at a steady pace and avoid the energy sapping stop start that is required when you are out of synch with the traffic lights.
You can see the cyclists in the first 30 sec of the film, have green beside them and they get through the traffic lights. The cyclists following a few second later have no green beside them and had to stop at the traffic lights
The two cyclists appearing on screen at 1.08 are at the front of the next green wave and sail through the next traffic lights on green.
If the green lights at the side of the path are glowing beside you as you cycle along you can be assured the next set of traffic lights on your route will be green for you if you maintain your present speed. If the green lights are not glowing beside you, then it might be an idea to adjust your speed until you have greens beside you. It allows you to cycle at a steady pace and avoid the energy sapping stop start that is required when you are out of synch with the traffic lights.
You can see the cyclists in the first 30 sec of the film, have green beside them and they get through the traffic lights. The cyclists following a few second later have no green beside them and had to stop at the traffic lights
The two cyclists appearing on screen at 1.08 are at the front of the next green wave and sail through the next traffic lights on green.
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What is probably a better question why would somebody bother to waste 3 minutes of their life filming it & then make several other people waste 3 minutes of theirs watching it, but then again it's posted by a cyclist with a camera, so just another none event.
Alan...
Alan...
HLaB
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Its the Gronnigen Green Wave; if a cyclist keeps up with the green wave they are guaranteed to get the Green Light at the intersection. It sits with the Dutch ethos that its better/faster/easier to go through town on your bike rather than driving.
I see! Very observant. I suppose that if you saw the green lights receding ahead, you would go like the blazes to catch them up, so I suppose that could be fun...
jefmcg
Guru
Did you all miss the love story? The cute couple who start holding hands at around 40 seconds and go through the lights 20 seconds later.
Unexpected benefits of proper cycling lanes.
Unexpected benefits of proper cycling lanes.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
No, you're not the only romantic in CC
On another forum I frequent it's a requirement to put some sort of description along with the video, so we don't have that very problem.
Can't we do that too?
PLEASE
On another forum I frequent it's a requirement to put some sort of description along with the video, so we don't have that very problem.
Can't we do that too?
PLEASE
I think part of the point of the OP is to have us figuring out what they're for.
