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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Smart Traffic Lights?
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 19:58:32 EDT
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> > All kinds of stuff about stupid smart lights.
> > 
> > Have other riders noticed this or are all the stupid lights just on
> > the roads I ride?  Any ideas on who to complain to or what can be
> > done?
> > 
> > 				Rick Schieve
> > 				...ihnp4!ihu1g!rls
> 
> It was the same in Kansas City when I was in school.  I started on a 
> Suzuki GN400 (~250lbs) and only 20% of the lights would trip.  Sometimes
> it seemed temperature had an effect.  I could trip some lights when it
> was hot but not when it was cold.  I traded up to a Honda 750ltd ~(500lbs)

My favorite tricks in Princeton (where my 750 tripped hardly any lights) 
were  1)  Pull over onto the curb (low curbs) and use the pedestrian push
button.
2)  Make a right turn on red followed by a U-turn and another right.
3)  Run the light.
4)  Pull forward far enough for the car behind me to trip the light(sometimes
confuses the less observant driver).

1-3 are best saved for midnight and beyond (and look both ways for sleeping
bears :-))
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