Originally Posted by
jimmie65
There's also a red light intersecting a major road that is only on sensors set for cars - no timer, no ped-walk button I can hit - so that I have had to sit and wait 5 minutes or more for a car to pull up behind me.
You should read through your local bike laws - where I live there is an exception written for cyclists which allows one to go through a red light if the wait is "unreasonably long."