The Perfect Commute

doc1976

Hey,

I was one red light away from a perfect green light commute today from Kilmainham, down the canal and finishing at Sir John Rogersons Quay. I didn't even have to slow down at the lights!!

Has anyone every had a perfect commute, without breaking any red lights?

DOC

snubbleste

I've no lights on my commute and only one busy junction.
I'm winning.

wobbles

Perfect trip home this afternoon. One set of lights which were green, one junction with roadworks and 2 roundabouts taking the 3rd exit without having to slow down, and the wind at my back most if the way. By far the best part of my day

Beasty

There's no such thing as the perfect commute - there's always scope for improvement;)

McTigs

i had a damn near perfect commute yesterday.

Green lights all the way (6 sets).... two of them went green just as i was about 20 metres away so the cars at the front were still struggling to find first gear as i shot through into the open road, glorious feeling.

Massive tailwind the entire way.

Minor marks dropped for a pitter patter of rain and one utility van that came a bit close.

Put me in a great mood all morning!

PurpleBee

When we had the floods in dublin and I was the only one on the road moving that evening aboard my amphibious bike, that was the perfect commute

petethedrummer

Learn to track stand and every commute is the perfect commute.

jameverywhere

I have noticed that if I pedal faster, I hit more green lights in a row. It's always really fun to fly down the road and hit the green light before cars do.

There are one or two junctions, however, which I'll never hit green I don't think, simply because of the timing (if I hit one green in one place, when I reach the second it will always be red)

seamus

Fairly sure it's an impossibility on my route. Some lights are set up so that when one is green, the next is red and so on.

check_six

seamus wrote: »

Fairly sure it's an impossibility on my route. Some lights are set up so that when one is green, the next is red and so on.

I do remember going to the trouble of timing a light sequence on the canal at one point. I was always getting stuck at a particular red light. Timing from when the light went red in the distance would mean you could slow down or speed up enough to arrive as the green was switching back on again. It was only really practical on one stretch, but you could get a good blast down a nice patch of road if you got it right.

I heard a rumour that certain light sequences around the middle of Dublin are set up so that it is impossible to get through them. The intention is to make it annoying to drive and therefore discouraging people from bringing cars into town. It's probably apocryphal, but if it was true does that mean they are encouraging people to use other means of transport... like bikes... and that 'they' are encouraging those cyclists to go through red lights....

Sounds like a solid conspiracy theory to me. I dare anyone to refute my wild claims!

Hungrycol

Of my 26 or so traffic lights I encounter each way this is impossible. What I find most infuriating is higher probability of encountering a red light when it's raining! I have also noticed that if I get a run of red lights in town there tends to be more green lights out of town and vice versa.

patrick151

petethedrummer wrote: »

Learn to track stand and every commute is the perfect commute.

That'a my perfect commute. So long as I don't have to unclip my feet I'm happy

Nisio

petethedrummer wrote: »

Learn to track stand and every commute is the perfect commute.

I don't consider "the perfect commute" ended if I don't have to put a foot on the ground, track standing or leaning on sign posts etc.

(I cycle through the city centre if a perfect commute was all green lights...)

sxt

doc1976 wrote: »

Has anyone every had a perfect commute

DOC

Once, when I was stuck behind a pair of hotties

Ciaran_B

When my commute was Crumlin > City Centre I did the perfect commute a few times. There's lots of pedestrian lights on the Crumlin Rd but if you can ride a green wave through them and get to Cork St. you've a good chance of getting to town without stopping. Feels good man.

My current commute is Rathmines > City Centre and I've never come close to a perfect run.

Ole Rodrigo

I've just got a new job with a 30K round trip commute. It might not be perfect, but its an improvement on the 1.5 k each way Ive put up with the past few years.

Civilian_Target

Used to commuter 25km to work near Nice in France.
The first 15km was on a dedicated bike track along the Mediterranean coast. On a lucky morning I could do the whole commute with just one red light. (Coming off the cycle track to go inland was a push-button light, so you'd always have to stop)
After that, it was going into the foothills on sideroads and into an industrial estate, with no lights.