How many years are we sat at red lights

[Lordglenmorangie]

We live just a few miles south of Huddersfield but have to travel thro the town to reach the M62 motorway . I counted the red traffic lights we had to stop early in the morning 18 in total with most of these not having traffic coming the other way . How many lights do others have to stop on their commute ?

There more than 18 , I just counted the ones that made us stop .

Edited by Lordglenmorangie on Friday 25th July 15:02

[J8 SVG]

2, if I get unlucky.

[nick s]

Quite a few, but I only ever stop if there's traffic coming. Otherwise just edge forward slowly and jump them. No more wasted time...

[Conscript]

I used to live in the centre of Gravesend, and I remember counting that I had 9 sets of traffic lights to go through before I even got to the dual carriageway :/

I've now moved house and have to traverse just two sets of lights - both on the M25/A2 roundabout

[XJSJohn]

you guys don't even know you'r born!! there are at least 3 major intersections here in Bangkok where they hold you on red for over 10 minutes. I timed the one to Rama 6 at 14 minutes a few months ago - makes you a little nervouse when trying to get to the airport on time!!!

And no, i have no clue why the hold on red for so long!! its

[Bibbs]

5 miles. About 20 traffic lights, with about 5 or 6 temporary ones, depending on route.

It's why I get the train.

[Ki3r]

Two mile commute to one job, five sets of lights, four at one roundabout. Pain in the arse if you get caught at one, you get caught at the other three.

Second job, 13 mile commute, five again.

[McWigglebum4th]

On average

1

in 23 miles

[Pints]

Daily round trip commute: 18

[philmots]

2 ways to go.. One set if I take the 7.8 mile route, none if I take the 8.5.

The 8.5 avoids a small town so I generally go that way as it flows better.

Luckily the time I start I rarely see another car.

[kambites]

There's two sets on my commute. At the time I hit them (out of the rush hour, few pedestrians to press the buttons) they cycle roughly every 30 seconds so the average wait time is about 15 seconds. So I average about 1 minute per working day waiting for lights - roughly four hours a year; about a week of my life in total if I stay in my current job until I retire.

To put it another way, about a quarter of the time I spend brushing my teeth.

[LukeKerr]

I always find these statistics interesting. Like how many hours of your life filling up with petrol etc – it is always amazing how much of our life we waste doing boring these like this.

[Boydie88]

20 miles, one T junction with a traffic light

[Steve Maund]

They have a sysyem on traffic lights in Thailand that gives a countdown timer to when the lights turn green.

Steve

[Lordglenmorangie]

[quote=Steve Maund]They have a sysyem on traffic lights in Thailand that gives a countdown timer to when the lights turn green.

Steve[/quote

They have the count down timer in France on the temporary traffic lights

[R6VED]

I live in MK so more roundabouts than traffic lights, but the motherfkers have started to put more and more traffic lights on roundabouts! I have two sets on the way to work and one on the way home - all on fking roundabouts :-) I can generally make at least one set without stopping though.

[Leptons]

What boils my piss is how much time could be saved if we could turn left on a red.

[delboy735]

F***ing site more than we used to !!!!!
Roundabouts were free flowing.So what do councils and the government advocate....Traffic lights. Permanently electrified, not very "green".Loads of standing traffic...not very green.
Just imagine no traffic lights.
No red light jumping.
No emergency services vehicles trying to negotiate queues.

Funny how when traffic lights fail, the traffic seems to move freely.