• What are peoples opinions on automatically triggered traffic lights? I don't know how common they are, or what the legal requirements for them are, but at least a few traffic lights near me appear to be automatically triggered (either by weight or by some kind of motion sensor) but there have been several instances where it appears that I've been stood at a various sets of lights for an eternity and that they only change when a car pulls up behind me.

    In normal circumstances I never RLJ and just stand around waiting but there is at least one light that I've taken to running regularly now and I feel a bit self conscious about it.

    They sometimes don't work. It is rather annoying. I was getting this at Rectory Road/Brooke Road, N16 quite a lot, but it seems to have been fixed. Report it when you notice it:

    http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/reportastreetfault/934.aspx

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