I have been told something about traffic lights...

SideWinder · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:49

That box beside the road where you press the 'Wait' button...know it? Okay well under it there is a little knob

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) and you can twist it. Someone told me that if you turn it, it speeds up how fast the lights change to red so you can cross quicker.

Um...this is false right? I just need to check.

Slinky1989 · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:50

Yeah that's false, used to do it as a kid when going to school thinking it would work.

Never did

Kenai · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:52

Absolute rubbish, traffic management would be destroyed if random people could change the cycle timings like that.

Dev2 · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:53

Press the big button faster and faster, it knows then that your in a rush and decrements the time remaining time by each unit of time (seconds in this case) corresponding to the number of times you hit it. Really?

No but people do it anyway.

SideWinder · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:54

Yeah thought so. Just a tiny part of me started thinking it MIGHT be true.

DanTheMan · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:54

Sounds a bit like McDonald's tills where you could flick the switch underneath and turn them off. That actually works though.

alex24 · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:55

This is an urban legend!

Quickest way across a road is to run and not wait for the lights, not recommended mind.

Psypher5 · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:56

its for blind people, it rotates when the lights are on red/man on green. So they know when to cross if theres no beeping

iirc

Tony Williams · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:57

Yeah, that is an old trick I heard. I've tried it and I believed it's shopped.

I don't believe it's shopped - I KNOW, because of the pixels and from seeing a few shops in my time.

Viper² · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:58

Aye it's for deaf/blind people.

Kristoph · 2 Jun 2009 at 00:59

Tony Williams said:
Yeah, that is an old trick I heard. I've tried it and I believed it's shopped.

I don't believe it's shopped - I KNOW, because of the pixed and from seeing a few shops in my time.

Shhhhh.

whitecrook · 2 Jun 2009 at 01:02

Tony Williams said:
Yeah, that is an old trick I heard. I've tried it and I believed it's shopped.

I don't believe it's shopped - I KNOW, because of the pixed and from seeing a few shops in my time.

lol

something daft already!! · 2 Jun 2009 at 01:09

There is a busy junction near where I live with a placebo pedestrian crossing button. It makes no difference when you press it to how often the lights change. They are in a preset order depending to traffic volume and time of day. It amuses me very slightly to see people push the button, usually several times, to try to cross the road quicker.

Viper² · 2 Jun 2009 at 01:17

howiepoohs said:
There is a busy junction near where I live with a placebo pedestrian crossing button. It makes no difference when you press it to how often the lights change. They are in a preset order depending to traffic volume and time of day. It amuses me very slightly to see people push the button, usually several times, to try to cross the road quicker.

I was waiting at some traffic lights a few weeks ago near a transport Police station and a Police woman came and hammered the button and it changed instantly. She may have just got lucky though.

Psypher5 · 2 Jun 2009 at 01:26

if your driving, and lights are on red, flash them with your lights and they might change green

WalesOwl · 2 Jun 2009 at 01:45

That only works for road work traffic lights right?

whitecrook · 2 Jun 2009 at 02:05

WalesOwl said:
That only works for road work traffic lights right?

don't know. I do it if no one is looking, otherwise you look a right tit.

pingwing · 2 Jun 2009 at 02:50

alexhull24 said:
This is an urban legend!

Quickest way across a road is to run and not wait for the lights, not recommended mind.

Unless you deaf of blind (or both) this is by far the quickest way across!

Come to NI everyone! where drivers un-nessesserally let everyone cross the road, i think the average driver either a doesnt like getting into trouble with the PSNI or b. doesnt have insurance.... Eitherway, traffic lights are their to stop lots of traffic, when theres little you can do it your self (its very dangerous for me as a pedestrian back in the UK....)

gillywibble · 2 Jun 2009 at 08:59

Psypher5 said:
if your driving, and lights are on red, flash them with your lights and they might change green

Or press your horn for at least 15 seconds.

arknor · 2 Jun 2009 at 09:12

Psypher5 said:
if your driving, and lights are on red, flash them with your lights and they might change green

pressure sensitive pads are on the road where the first car stops aswell, rock backwords and forwards in your seat to try and trigger them, most cars arent quite heavy enough.

there suposed to be for fire engines so when a fireengine touchs them the lights go green