Originally Posted by
AltheCyclist
I'm curious, are there a lot of roads out there that have heavy auto traffic two directions and virtually none from the other directions so that this is a problem?
Usually all four directions are either active or dead so worrying about the actuator is not a problem. I.e. you simply stop, look, and go.
I have seen turn lanes that never actuate and you can easily skip a cycle or two, but then it's easy enough to do a straight-across, then turn at the corner as a work around.
Yes, I see them. In fact the very first main road from where I live has some sensor whatever it is, but I didn't see the boxes on the pavement. It might be video detection? Today I went a small tour about 18 miles and came across something that looked like this on the pavement before a traffic signal light at a 4-way.
The left and right streets were on a highway with 45mph speed limit I think. Straight ahead was a main road. The other one road had no traffic with a dead end. I didn't try the method, because some truck pulled up along side me. I notice the detectors off of non busy roads that lead to high traffic roads like highways.