Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
Unless you live in a city like Eugene, OR, where very few of the sensors are tuned to detect bikes, even the left turn lane sensors. The city staff have taken the position that if they tune them for bikes they will sometimes detect a motor vehicle in an adjacent lane, which could cause oncoming traffic to wait for a left turn arrow that no one is there for. Far better to have cyclists wait for a car going their way in order to get a legal way out of the intersection.
Why is it that some locations the inductive sensors work great for detecting bicycles with no adjacent lane issue and others are so poor.
Likely
different technology, but also perhaps different guidelines for tuning the sensors.