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Originally Posted by Panda
With some lights it's impossible to know if you waited two cycles because the light never turns green for you in the first place.
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That's where the law is flawed. It should be simply that a rider can treat the light like a stop sign after waiting for 60 seconds if the light is already known to him to be a problematic light. Or 120 seconds if he isn't familiar with the light. Some of these laws require a biker to wait numerous cycles which can equate to 20 minutes for some lights. And if the light never cycles at all, the wait is forever.
Also, I think they need to have something in the law requiring that when significant maintenance is done to the light for other reasons, that they install motorcycle "M" boxes. This is a blue box that is 12" square with a blue "M" in it. The box would have extra sensors pads that enable the light to trip when anything as small as a bicycle tire or aluminum rim Ninja tire is rolled into it.
Florida doesn't have anything like this law yet, but we're working on it.