Originally Posted by
Maelochs
The logic breaks down when some lights don't trigger outside of commuter hours unless cross-traffic is present. You would have to sit until dawn waiting for a "complete" cycle.
This is what I experience every morning as well since I take mostly secondary roads, and that early in the morning there are no cars waiting to cross main roads to trigger the light. I either have mount the sidewalk to trigger the pedestrian crossing manually, or I wait for a gap and proceed past the red light.