Traffic lights not recognising cyclists?

[summerdays]

The most annoying set I have is not a problem getting them to trigger, but instead that the moment the gap is a car length over the induction loop, it them returns to red to allow the opposite green filter light to come on. This means I have to filter to the front or be only a car or two away from the asl or otherwise I don't make it through that cycle.

 

[HLaB]

I'd rather be practical too. For me that means lights that recognise all road users, so I don't have to wait for a real one who has paid his road tax to let me follow through behind him.

Do what you want to do, its a free world ;-)

 

[fabregas485]

I was told by a police officer the other morning that the set of lights I had just pulled up too (and he was patrolling) were broken and not changing from red for anything. I had to process with caution (which at 5am is no biggie)

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

This one is always a PITA - http://goo.gl/maps/i7lSe

The right turn is bus and tram (and cycles!) only. At rush hour even if there is a bus and tram coming, they are often stuck way back in the traffic. It never seems to change without a bus or tram, but not sure if that's a sensor issue or do such controls only exist triggered by local buses and trams? I did have a conversation with a clearly lost driver when I was feeling charitable, pulled around them and told them if they carried on through the lights, the cameras were active and a £30 fine would be sent (true), and I don't recall the lights changing for the car either, until they had backed up and moved to the main lane and a bus arrived

Reported it to council but not noticed any difference

Even worse if a bus is ahead - great! It triggers the light but there is always a line of cars blocking the junction up so the bus generally manages to set off on the amber phase after the green has been showing..leaving me stuck at a ne'er-changing red

I don't even bother anymore, I just head straight on and to the main road, it's a slightly longer route but it's faster than reading War & Peace waiting for the tram to change the light for me

 

[buggi]

Make sure on the approach to the lights that you cross the induction loops, they don't usually go right to the gutter.

and of course you shouldn't be in the gutter at this point anyway.

 

[summerdays]

and of course you shouldn't be in the gutter at this point anyway.

But lots are!