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Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: David Meyers
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00
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"Thomas Wilk" <sponge1000@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> just as you approached it.  But, these new systems with the trip
> device on side roads doesn't seem to allow such a smooth flow of
...
> I can recall one time that the device failed to sense my car (an
> Escort at the time) and I waited 4 minutes to enter a main road that

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.

--d
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From: David Meyers <dmeyers@panix.com>
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/09/28
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