🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:01:04 -0400, X Metro Man <pdcorc@excite.com> wrote:
>On 28 Sep 1999 09:52:45 -0400, David Meyers <dmeyers@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>I used to have that problem with the trip plate on the end of
>>a street where right turns on red were illegal - couldn't do
>>anything -- and that was in my datsun.
>>I have that problem all the time on the motorcycle.
>>Trip plates just don't work.

This has been discussed several times on ba.motorcycles, and elsewhere.
Try putting your kickstand down (assuming it is ferrous), and try stopping
and starting your bike (assuming it has electric start).  In CA at least, 
there is some defense from the ticket in the VC about non-functioning
signals being treated as a stop sign.

>
>There's a few intersections around here where they don't work when
>it's wintry weather outside.  Sometimes one of the four roads going to
>an intersection will remain red while the other three cycle green.
>Other times one of the roads would be green for less than five
>seconds, allowing ONE vehicle to barely make it through.  Then traffic
>is tied up, generating smog.

K001!

>
>Here's a novel concept for New England: design lights to allow free
>flow of traffic at safe speeds, and reduce smog at the same time.
>Then we might not need those new dynameter tests.


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