Traffic light cameras

[fanzone]

Anyone know if them b******s work at the top of church Street merging into Colne Road?

[claretblue]

don't think so...I've been parked waiting since Monday!

[dsr]

Hope so. Speeding contraventions can often be accidental, but it's rare that running a red light can be put down to bad luck or to missing a single signpost.

If you've got caught on a genuinely accidental running of a red light, my sympathy. The big fault on these cameras are that they judge absoulte fault with no regard to circumstances.

[conyoviejo]

Hope they are working,running a red light is very dangerous and anybody doing so deserves all they get.

[uni_queue]

Not sure there are traffic light cameras...
There are cameras monitoring the bus lane from the School Lane junction up to the traffic lights at the junction of Colne Road \ Church St\Acive way - which I believe do work

[fanzone]

Toddling along at 25mph i certainly didn't do it trying to get anywhere quickly

[fanzone]

Not sure there are traffic light cameras...
There are cameras monitoring the bus lane from the School Lane junction up to the traffic lights at the junction of Colne Road \ Church St\Acive way - which I believe do work

What are them things sat on top of the traffic lights?

[Clowbridge89]

Pretty sure they are just for the bus lane.

My wife once got ‘done’ by a traffic light camera in Manchester. She was travelling at 2mph through some temporary traffic lights. She should have took it further really but they offered her an online course to do rather than take the points, so it wasn’t worth it.

[wilks_bfc]

What are them things sat on top of the traffic lights?

Sensors

Some lights at junctions only change when vehicles are waiting

The ones in Colne road by the courts are like that

[Rileybobs]

Toddling along at 25mph i certainly didn't do it trying to get anywhere quickly

It's probably even worse running a red light at a low speed.

[tim_noone]

Anyone know if them b******s work at the top of church Street merging into Colne Road?

Are they new? I didnt see them there last week when in barlick....

[Jakubclaret]

Hope they are working,running a red light is very dangerous and anybody doing so deserves all they get.

Even if it's been stuck on for like 10 mins, it happens usually at nighttime with temporary 1s, travelling through foulridge the other night I wasn't which would arrive first Xmas or the green light.

[conyoviejo]

Even if it's been stuck on for like 10 mins, it happens usually at nighttime with temporary 1s, travelling through foulridge the other night I wasn't which would arrive first Xmas or the green light.

Fair enough Jakub..In that case proceed with caution at a very slow speed.

[dsr]

Fair enough Jakub..In that case proceed with caution at a very slow speed.

Or whizz through at 70+ so you spend less time in the danger zone

I remember one time on a busy road into Yorkshire, the temporary road work lights were set so badly that one way had all day to go through, the other way was giving time for literally 5 cars. We were 20 minutes in the queue and there was no queue at all the other side. The last time the light turned green for me, I was the seventh car through after it turned back red, and there were five more after me.

[Dazzler]

I remember one time on a busy road into Yorkshire, the temporary road work lights were set so badly that one way had all day to go through, the other way was giving time for literally 5 cars. We were 20 minutes in the queue and there was no queue at all the other side. The last time the light turned green for me, I was the seventh car through after it turned back red, and there were five more after me.

If you can see the other side of a 2 way temporary controlled lights and there is no vehicle waiting or approaching the lights you may go through on red.

Not a lot of people know that.

[Bosscat]

Funnily enough there was a problem this morning with temporary lights just before Todber Holiday park on the Gisburn side along the straight on the A682.
Luckily there were 2 guys with walkie talkies/phones operating the lights to let traffic through manually

[dsr]

If you can see the other side of a 2 way temporary controlled lights and there is no vehicle waiting or approaching the lights you may go through on red.

Not a lot of people know that.

Have you a link? I've been informed (verbally, but by someone who should know) that a proper red-amber-green temporary traffic light has the same weight as a fixed one.

[Edit] Highway Code rule attached - you have to obey temporary lights.

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Traffic light signals and traffic signs. You MUST obey all traffic light signals (download ‘Light signals controlling traffic’) and traffic signs giving orders, including temporary signals & signs (download ‘Traffic signs’). Make sure you know, understand and act on all other traffic and information signs and road markings (download ‘Road markings’ and Vehicle markings’) .
Laws RTA 1988 sect 36 & TSRGD regs 10, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 36, 38 & 40

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/other-s ... dures.html

[tim_noone]

Funnily enough there was a problem this morning with temporary lights just before Todber Holiday park on the Gisburn side along the straight on the A682.
Luckily there were 2 guys with walkie talkies/phones operating the lights to let traffic through manually

Been using the walkie talkies there a long time...you new to the area.....

[Bosscat]

Been using the walkie talkies there a long time...you new to the area.....

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[tim_noone]

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Dont be so hard on yourself.....

[yorkyclaret]

What are them things sat on top of the traffic lights?

They are motion detectors, lights only change when they detect movement, so you should move your vehicle a few inches when you think it is time for them to change, or wave out of the sunroof.

[Foulthrow]

I always thought that flashing your lights would get temporary traffic lights to change? Or is this an urban myth?

[Bosscat]

I always thought that flashing your lights would get temporary traffic lights to change? Or is this an urban myth?

Myth ... its movement that alerts the sensor