Jumping lights

[waynne]

I'm sure like me you often see cars coming through lights just as your own light is turning green. Obviously they have jumped the light but is this always the case or do you think sometimes the lights are just a bit quick when they change?

In roadworks when your light has turned green and there are still cars coming through from the other end do you move forward to "make a point".

Have you ever deliberately or accidentally jumped a light?

I find the lights in London quite fast, down our way you seem to have an age on Amber before you hit red.

Also how many know what the Amber light actually means? (stop,go,get ready for a change, something else?)

[bigbadjoe]

Yeah'r..........quite a few times.

I have only knowingly done it once in the UK. When I was takin the misses to work, they were doing work on a bridge and the lights stay green/red for way too long. I was coming around the corner and saw them turn red, I thought, ''sod sitting here for a good 3 min, I'm off'' and was able to catch up to the car infront, drop the woman off, go around the round about and make the same green going back accross the bridge!

Over here, it is quite a common thing. Stopping for amber is seen as a no-no. As the person behind you will simply dive into the back of you. So quite often you may go through as it turns red, as too do the two or three cars BEHIND you.

But bearing in mind, you only have about 4 roundabouts in the whole of Bahrain, and they use the american traffic light system, you can emagen there are quite a few set of lights here.

[Jakeymd]

a little guilty I must admit. I'll sometimes drive through hoping it will still be amber but ut just changes red. one time i drove through a red-red. I was looking at the names of side streets in loughborough and didn't notice the light change...or even.that I had gone through it, until my passenger told me.

[stamford]

I do not make a habit of driving through when changing from green to amber unless the road conditions are poor (wet) and I am going too fast to make a safe stop. See plenty on the way into work actually going through red lights when going from green to amber as they cannot be bothered to wait a couple of minutes. Daft as I catch them up on the 'A' road when the traffic is backed up. The lights that I frequent have a phase that I know when to go so the delay is not as bad as you would think, there are quite a few lights and junctions on this particular one including bus lanes.

[T9 man]

One of the worst areas for this that I have witnessed is at the Beckton roundabout in East London which crosses the A406 & A13. Someone is going to get killed there unless the council put up those traffic light cameras.
Remember where you heard it first!

[turbonutter69]

Junction 28 of the M1. HGV's go flying through reds and the lights there change really fast.
Annoys the hell out of me.

[Olley]

one set of lights near me i go through every day i use the car almost. and i've learnt the sequence quite well. how ever one of the right turn filter lights stays green for about 8 seconds. and unless you're in the first three cars in the queue you wont make it through. so i've ambered that one once or twice.

never deliberately jumped a red. except once or twice when the lights were evidently broken!

[pgarner]

jump the ones in the town quite a bit, they never used to be there but tesco were told that they would have to install them due to the extra traffic - there used to be a huge lorry park there before hand and they were never needed then - since they went in the only side that has a proxi sensor is tescos side the other 3 and weight sensors in the road. and guess what one is broken so it thinks cars are sitting there all the time !!!
this is even at 530 in the morning you can sit there for 5 mins waiting on the lights to change as it thinks theres something sitting

has been reported many times but no one has even bothered to look at it

[Jakeymd]

lights in ashbourne are terrible. when coming down the hill you get about 5 seconds of green and 5 minutes of red. all to reduce the amount of traffic coming into the town, however we're a market town so we rely on traffic coming through the town. the whole town needs planning with a large one-way system in my opinion. and another smaller one perhaps.

[Yugguy]

I tend to ignore the ones on roundabouts when it's 3am and there's absolutely no point in them being controlled when there's noone there.

[VRoy6]

Amber means stop if you are approaching the light, and are at a distance that is safe enough to do so without breaching the junction. Unless of course that you are so close so as to pull up would mean you breach anyway. When at a light that is red, it means that you should get ready to go.
Correct sequence :
Red
Red & Amber together
Green

Or

Green
Amber
Red

[HDi fun]

I only go through on red if there's a response vehicle behind wearing blues. Even then this has to be done with absolute caution.