Reply To: Blowing Red Lights when the #@#$ing sensor won’t “see” you
July 14, 2009 at 9:10 am
#20605
zeppelinfromled
Participant
This only ever happens to me late at night (after midnight or so). Before that, there’s usually enough traffic that there will be a car to trigger it. I’ve run them a couple times, usually going straight.
Taking a protected right and then a U-turn is safer, but around here we have a lot of no turn on red situations, so I’ll be doing something wrong either way. I just ease out into the intersection so that I can clearly see in both directions with no obstacles (parked cars, etc) and slowly go through.
I haven’t gotten in trouble for it (maybe I just haven’t been riding long enough). But I hope that if a cop pulled me over, I could explain my way out of that one.