bike2math

Whoops I just realized today (thinking about this thread on the commute in) that there are two stop signs on campus that I've been blowing through every single day. I always arrive at them either with a pedestrian or with a car and have just been rolling through in their shadow.

filtersweep

zero- we have roundabouts.

PaulH

Current one-way commute is 2 miles, 5 stop signs, four stop lights, followed by a bus ride, followed by a half mile with two yields and a stoplight. Obey all of them. One of what I call "stop lights" is actually a police officer directing traffic.

Paul

evblazer

I wish people here would learn to use roundabouts.
I have 19 stop signs and 6 lights and one roundabout. With the exception of one really nasty stop sign/light/sign combination crossing a big 6 lane + 4 service lanes 65mph road the roundabout is the worst since they are soo rare and no one knows how to use it even with the instructions clearly posted on the signs before you enter. Luckily it isn't heavily trafficed so most times I can go through it alone.

rando

six lights and several stop signs. it's a 5.5 mile trip each way.

CBBaron

8.5 mile each way.
around 20 lights and 10 stop signs.
I obey all lights and come to a near stop at all signs.
takes me about 40 min.
Craig

Dr_Robert

4.5 miles. 11 lights. I pretty much always run red lights if there's no traffic, though I always slow down first if visibility is an issue.

-DR

pmseattle

I have slightly more than 120 lights on my commute ( I live in a densely populated urban area ). In the morning when there is no traffic, I treat almost all of them as stop signs, since most of them won't switch for a bicycle. In another thread on the same topic, a poster accused people like me of being morally bankrupt. I once calculated that it would take me between nine and ten hours to get to work in the morning if I stopped at each light and waited for a car to come and switch it. Otherwise, it takes me about 35 - 40 minutes. In the afternoon when there is plenty of traffic, I obey all lights.

bfromcolo

16 miles one way, 2 lights, 4 street crossings. About 15 miles of the ride is on bike trails.

Jeronimo_

One and I run it often.

marcoocram

I was just thinking about htis on the way home. 15 miles each way, four different municipalities - one light.

freemti

3.5 miles, 6 lights - area is basically rural leading to office park land. I obey 4 lights, sail through one (T style with no traffic on "my" side), make left on another if no traffic.

notfred

Why would I know this information? Why do all you people know this information? Do you really go out one day and decide to count stoplights?

How many pedal revolutions does it take to got to work? Do you all know that, too?

Anyway, my commute is roughly 5 miles across San Francisco, including downtown. There are a bunch of lights.

Dr_Robert

I'd never thought about it until I saw this thread. However, I know my commute well enough that I could easily count the lights in my head.

gcl8a

Well, since most people who replied can count them on one hand, even a typical bike forum member can do it without too much thought...

Anyway, 2.8km -- 0 stop lights. My old commute was 8km, with 8 lights. I usually stopped for them, except the one at the intersection of Rødegårdsvej and Østerbæksvej, two of the funniest named streets you've ever heard.

Big Ron

13 miles one way, I think there are 5 stop signs and 15 stop lights. I'm usually riding before 6AM, so treat the stop signs as yield signs. I obey all the stoplights, except the last which is a left turn for me. That light has a metal detector which simply cannot be triggered by a bicycle, and there's rarely ever a car there to trigger it for me, so I run it (assuming there's no oncoming traffic).

dydst

9 miles, maybe 25 lights. I should count exactly some day.

pieholden

To answer you questions in order:
I don't know why you would or if you would care.
I was bored at work and I'm sure other people were, too. Nothing wrong with keeping track of your commute and comparing it to others for fun
I counted them in my head at work
No, but I would if I had a cadence monitor.
That was a redundant question.

Hopefully, you'll chime back once your done counting your lights.

vtjim

I'm waiting for the first ss/fixed-gear commuter to answer this.

lima_bean

since its my COMMUTE, its something I do every single day. therefore once I saw this thread it took only a few seconds to count the stoplights in my head.

ItsJustMe

11 miles, 2 lights, 34 minutes. The two lights are within a mile of each other when I go through town, the majority of my ride is in the country.