Originally Posted by
pdlamb
My fair city started pulling that crap, a short green followed by a three second yellow. I complained, and was told to use the button for the walk light.
O-o-o-okay. It takes me about 12 seconds to cross five lanes of traffic with a median. The walk sign (which I used to time myself) starts counting down from 30 seconds. I'd really like to get the bike club to conduct an operation, where cyclists came to one of these intersections once per light cycle and slowed everyone down for 5-10 traffic light cycles. How long do you think it'd take traffic engineering to revise the new plan?
You can usually tell when the light is going to turn yellow based on the walk light countdown. If you get to an intersection and see the countdown almost finished, you could either sprint through the intersection or stop and wait for a fresh green light.