Originally Posted by
jsdavis
Is there a good way to find the loops if there is no visible cut? I recently went on a trip and could not trip a single light in town because I could not find the marks I'm used to seeing. I end up having to press the pedestrian button at every light if there wasn't a car there.
In SF,I just line up the wheels on the cuts of the rectangular ones. The circle ones are the most difficult. The dual-trapezoid one you just have to have the bike over it anywhere.
The practice I have seen most of my career is to place the first loop at the stop line or straddling it. There are usually 2 behind the first one, spaced at 10-feet apart. Or, you can ask the road agency to go out and locate the loops for you, we do it all the time for motorcyclists who use the same route each day and have trouble getting a signal call in. It usually takes less than 20 minutes to mark them out and we make someone happy (and stop their pestering phone calls that the "$%^&* signal isn't working").