I'm working on a device that will trigger inductive loop sensors at traffic lights. I'm testing it in the SF Bay Area, where 80% of lights DO detect bikes. I want to test it in a city where no intersections detect bikes -- that would be a harder test to pass.
Do any of you know of cities where the cities don't tune their traffic loops to detect bikes?
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Cities with inductive loop sensorsthat don't detect bikes?
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Salt lake and surrounding areas... Sigh it drives me nutz Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I already faced that....but that was in France.
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Vacaville, about 40 miles outside of SF. The City touts itself as being a great place to ride but try going out at 6am on Sunday morning and see how long it takes for a car to come along and trigger the lights. The only other cars out and about at that time of morning are the cops that always give me a quick talking too for riding across crosswalks because I'm fed up of waiting so damned long.
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Too bad you aren't testing in Pa, they rather infrequently work here.
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Swampy1970,
Are there a few intersections in particualt that don't trigger for bikes? I want to pre-screen the intersections just to make sure they're not video-controlled. If they are indeed inductive loop sensor-controlled, I'll hear to Vacaville to test.And thanks to the others too for the tips on SLC, France, and PA. I hope to eventually test the device far away too.
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Leisure Town rd and fry rd/Alamo Rd junction seems to be the worst. The left turn lane traveling south on leisure town rd turning into fry road sucks for cyclists - you either wait for a car to show up or sneak through the junction as if you were a pedestrian.
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