Police stopping RLJers this morning...

[Adasta]

What does RLJing even mean? I literally have no idea...

Red Light Jumping (or Jumper)

 

[coffeejo]

What does RLJing even mean? I literally have no idea...

I found this post extremely useful when I joined

 

[Wankelschrauben]

Which crossings are you referring to? Some crossings are a bit slow, and I nearly always jump the light going from Mill Street to High Street. They're bloody slow to change and you hardly ever see another vehicle whilst waiting, the only reason they exist is to aid the taxis and busses, of which there aren't many. In fact the silly miniature cycle lane past the lights seems to direct cyclists into Bank Street which is mad because it's pedestrianised, and High Street isn't.

Loose Road Swan Pub junction

Wheatsheaf pub junction from cranbourne avenue only

Southpark to Mote park junction, turning right from Main road towards Mote Park

All three sets of lights from the bottom of King street to the top

Junction by Domino's pizza can be temperamental, as can all the lights on that roundabout, this is where one of those random 10 feet cycles is

Madgingford onto Willington Street

Willington Street to Ashford road, turning left is slow, turning right is non existant at times - Turning left out of this road was when a failed over take attempt saw me racing at 40mph between a car and the park wall with his wing mirror chasing me down the road, the driver claimed he couldn't see me and thought he had passed.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

[QUOTE 1433088"]Funnier if it was Boris on a well-suited bloke being pulled over though.
[/quote]

Indeed

But do red lights apply to piggy back rides?

 

[gaz]

I happened to go across bf bridge during the protest - didn't know about it and didn't join - and there were a lot of police in the junctions near the bridge, and not many elsewhere in town - including that Aldgate box. I assumed they were there to stop or fine any illegal cycling leaving the protest.

Of course, they may have been been there for my safety. Being paranoid is confusing.

Well then you very much got the wrong end of the stick.

 

[Wind in my Air]

Wheatsheaf pub junction from cranbourne avenue only

I've been caught on that one waiting for ages for the lights to turn. It seems to have both a movement sensor and a metal sensor. I was sat there for a while with a car behind me, so I moved forward so the car could drive onto it but they didn't bother. In the end, I chose my moment and carefully progressed through the red light when it was safe.


I can't say I've ever been at any of the other lights when there hasn't been motorized traffic about to trigger the sensors. I do wonder how the sensors work on that new Loose Road/Swan junction. There's what looks like a metal sensor on Boughton Lane, but often there's a car parked on half of it! It does have a movement sensor too though.

Willington Street to Ashford road, turning left is slow, turning right is non existant at times - Turning left out of this road was when a failed over take attempt saw me racing at 40mph between a car and the park wall with his wing mirror chasing me down the road, the driver claimed he couldn't see me and thought he had passed.

Sounds nasty. I really don't like that section, I tend to take the cycle path through Mote Park even if it is a bit longer.

 

[summerdays]

If a traffic light doesn't register your bike then report it as not working ... (though in saying that there is one I have reported more than once that Bristol City Council have done nothing about). And make sure you cross the sensors on your approach to the lights...

 

[Tim Hall]

If a traffic light doesn't register your bike then report it as not working ... (though in saying that there is one I have reported more than once that Bristol City Council have done nothing about). And make sure you cross the sensors on your approach to the lights...

Look for the rhomboid/parallelogram on the ground, showing where the sensor is buried. Ride along the lines if at all possible. If riding with a buddy, get one edge each. Chuck away your plastic and soot bike and get some steel. It all helps.

 

[Jezston]

plastic and soot

 

[Jonathing]

It is also means that I have to spend my life listening to the tired manta "all cyclists ignore the rules of the road and jump red lights".

I'm still trying to work out how I was being berated by a woman this morning for "all cyclists jumping red lights" while I was stopped, waiting for the lights to turn green.

 

[StuartG]

Reminds me of a recent 'overseas' FNRttC departing Cardiff. We stopped to regroup at a set of traffic lights. Regrouping was a manoeuvre unfamiliar to the local Welsh contingent who got very confused when the lights turned to green and nothing happened.

Fortunately a well known CC correspondent saved the day with the immortal words "We are from London, we have to wait for Red"

 

[Angelfishsolo]

LMAO

Reminds me of a recent 'overseas' FNRttC departing Cardiff. We stopped to regroup at a set of traffic lights. Regrouping was a manoeuvre unfamiliar to the local Welsh contingent who got very confused when the lights turned to green and nothing happened.

Fortunately a well known CC correspondent saved the day with the immortal words "We are from London, we have to wait for Red"

 

[clarion]

I'm still trying to work out how I was being berated by a woman this morning for "all cyclists jumping red lights" while I was stopped, waiting for the lights to turn green.

Very regular occurrence.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

There was a very interesting thread on another forum I'm on recently - I don't remember the context, but a bunch of people admitted that they drive through red lights when they think it is safe (eg deserted junctions late at night, pedestrian crossings obviously devoid of pedestrians) and no-one pulled anyone up on this - totally different to on here where someone saying something like that would (quite rightly in my view) be challenged for doing something like that on a bike. I thought it was a very interesting reflection on the attitudes of people on that thread. I should have come along and said that I did the same thing on my bike (I don't BTW) just to see what the reaction would have been...

I'm afraid I sometimes do it in the dead of night in my lorry. The bloody thing uses so much diesel getting up to speed from a standing start, and there are a couple of lights on my route which just go through their cycle (ho ho) regardless of whether there's any traffic to let through the other way or not. If - and I stress this - I can see there's nothing coming the other way, and if there's nothing else around, I go through on the red. I remember a lot of these traffic lights when the roads they're controlling were just normal roundabouts, and they were safe enough then. I do the same on the bike, too, but I'm often on the road at 3 or 4 in the morning and it doesn't seem to matter so much then.