If one lane, I try to stay left as far as possible so that Righturns on Red can squeeze by.
If two or more lanes, I stop behind other vehicles rather than block the right-most lane.
It’s the Registered Tree-hugger and Greenie thing to do.
No, that would be to walk and not use any fuel.
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Too slow.
We ride our tandem bicycle to the grocery store and garage sales wearing backpacks, our lungs cleaning the air as we ride.
I never turn left here. Always straight.
Light has left green arrow and 2nd green light for straight.
I’m not 100% sure it will turn green if I stay in turn lane.
City engr says no room for right turn lane
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Yeah, but then does everyone pull into the center, trying to followthe emergency vehicles?
Interestingly, our tandem is sensed by the buried induction loop and we get a (<-)
Could it be the metal plate in my head?
Dash cam rear-facing video shows that many have followed me througheavy traffic.
In crawling Interstate traffic I was driving themergencyehicle between lanes one and two.
A vehicle was following in the space opened up by other drivers.
State Patrol said the driver was caught because callers reported him.
When I was traveling in lane one and a driver was at least 300 feet behind, no law was broken.
But drivers pull into the open lane welbefore 300 feet.
I frequently have the same problem of the traffic-signal sensor not detecting my aluminum bicycle. I’ve been thinking about gluing a piece of steel to the sole of one of my shoes, see if that helps.
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If it doesn’t help with the traffic light situation, at least you can pick up a few extra bucks by doing some tap dance performances on the sidewalk.
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The metal does not need to be ferrous for the detector to work- only conductive. The reason your bike is difficult to detect (and some motorcycles) is because of the distance and, more importantly, the orientation of the metal. The loop detector works best when the metal surface area, on plane with the loop, is greatest. A car has a lot of horizontal metal on plane with the loop. Your bicycle is vertical and perpendicular to the plane of the loop. The metal area in plane with the loop is very small. Try laying your bike down, I bet it works much better. Just as an experiment of course.
Much depends on the loop design and more modern loop detectors are more sensitive in general. But they are also calibrated by the installer. Depending on the design, your bicycle may be more detectable straddling one end of the loop rather than in the middle of the loop…
Interesting that the scientific principle these detectors are based upon is more or less independent on the metal’s magnetic permeability constant. Google produces plenty of articles which agree, saying the loop traffic detector works well for aluminum. But there’s no dispute either than these traffic detectors are much less reliable at detecting bicycles vs cars. I haven’t been able to find a direct experimental scientific comparison for the same size/shaped object, one made of aluminum, the other steel. Putting galvanized steel sheet metal into shoe soles may help, but apparently not b/c it is made of steel, but b/c it would be oriented horizontally, flat to the road. A sheet of aluminum in the shoe soles may work just as good.