How many sets of lights on your commute?

Crow92

I don't care if you stop at them when you should or not;)

But how many sets of lights do you have on your commute?

My route is Darndale-> malahide road ->Samuel Beckett Bridge->Grand Canal -> Ranelagh -> ucd.

I have 46 sets of lights on the commute, about 12 of them or so I'd only have to stop the very odd occasion.

Captain Havoc

46:eek: I think I've 5 + a possible two or three pedestrian crossings. To be fair though a couple of lights have been replaced with roundabouts.

I... have no idea. 20? 30? I've never thought to count them.

Crow92

Dónal wrote: »

I... have no idea. 20? 30? I've never thought to count them.

Ha me neither till the "perfect commute thread" so I counted on the way home. I don't think I'll every get a perfect commute

Darkglasses

20 including pedestrian crossings...Guess that perfect commute isn't gonna happen (legally).

Beasty

6 plus 5 pedestrian lights on the way in, two extra on the way home (assuming I take the most direct routes). It's very rare that the pedestrian lights are against me (less than once a month on average). There are 2 linked sequences that it's virtually impossible to get through without having to stop at one or other (or both)

dquirke1

40km commute each way and not a single set of lights. About the only advantage to living in the middle of nowhere.

Cookie_Monster

1

seamus

34 including ped lights

lennymc

33 in 50km. they are all allwyas red!

youcancallmeal

lennymc wrote: »

33 in 50km. they are all allwyas red!

Ha! I have 33 in 5km, Terenure to IFSC!
Its soul destroying some mornings when I have to stop at nearly every one!

AstraMonti

Only two!

BeerNut

20 in 5km.

Seaswimmer

32 in 20km from Dun Laoghaire area to Airport however there are long stretches with very few lights for example from Tara Towers Hotel to East Wall Road across Merrion Gates and East Link..

ROK ON

I used to occasionally commute finto town on the Navan Road Dublin. From the Tesco at Prussia street to James Joyce bridge there are 9 or so sets of lights. The road is 1.3km long!!!

rich.d.berry

I only have 7 traffic lights but also have 2 roundabouts and 1 stop sign, so 10 places where I potentially need to stop.

One of the lights I turn right at and the lights are set so that I always have to stop at the next set. I will never have a free run (perfect commute) but I am starting to master the track stand. I still unclip though, just in case I need to put a foot down. Two embarrassing falls have taught me the hard way.

Ryath

3 in 20k all pedestrian request only one of them I'd occasionally get stopped at.

Crow92 wrote: »

My route is Darndale-> malahide road ->Samuel Beckett Bridge->Grand Canal -> Ranelagh -> ucd.

Are you sure that's the shortest way? Used to do Collins Avenue to UCD myself but from Grand Canal I would head up Shelbourne Road through Ballsbridge and up Anglesea Road to the N11. Mainly on a motorbike but I did cycle it a few times and to my mind its the most direct route. Maybe your way is quicker though and suits where you're heading on campus.

Malari

I have 13 over 3.5k. Plus a zebra crossing and lollipop lady outside a school.

Crow92

Ryath wrote: »

3 in 20k all pedestrian request only one of them I'd occasionally get stopped at.



Are you sure that's the shortest way? Used to do Collins Avenue to UCD myself but from Grand Canal I would head up Shelbourne Road through Ballsbridge and up Anglesea Road to the N11. Mainly on a motorbike but I did cycle it a few times and to my mind its the most direct route. Maybe your way is quicker though and suits where you're heading on campus.

Suits me my way because I'm over in richview. Though going back I go down beaver row -> donnybrook->Ballsbridge-> grand canal just to mix it up.

Highway_To_Hell

on the way home last night I started counting the number of lights, lost count at around 36 and still had around 10km to go. I reckon there are another 13 so that makes 49 in total, a good few of these are infrequently used pedestrian crossings, there are also around 10 roundabouts. There a few point along the journey where I am happy to see a red light as an excuse for a quick breather.

seamus

Working it out, of the 34 it's fairly even. 13 I would have to stop every time or nearly every time. 12 I would rarely have to stop. 9 would be about 50:50. Most of the "rarely" would be manual pedestrian lights.

Dermot Illogical

37, and a level crossing.

NeedMoreGears

20 plus a level crossing in 21km but I avoid quite a few (maybe 6 or 7) along the Clontarf track - down from 21 in 22 since changing work location/route slightly

BeardySi

Eight in 3.9miles...

cdaly_

22 + 1 railway crossing (which counts as lights really) in 14km. Of those, 1 is sensor only so I have to wait for a car or jump the red (or cross as a ped which just isn't on...)

If it's really windy that adds another 5 lights ('cos I use the road instead of the cycle track).

seven stars

32 from Leixlip > Baggot Street (including pedestrian crossings).

07Lapierre

Seven Lights and 5 Lolly-pop people! ( Who are worse than the lights!)

donal2000

13+

rich.d.berry

07Lapierre wrote: »

...5 Lolly-pop people! ( Who are worse than the lights!)

I agree. There's one on my route too and it's almost as if she gets a kick out of seeing how many cars she can stop. The crossing is about 200m from traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing, but it's there because of a footpath between the houses leading to a school which starts on the other side of the road.

Sometimes she'll walk onto the crossing even before the pedestrians have got to the crossing and make everyone wait for them as they make their leisurely approach. At other times there'll be 2 groups of pedestrians approaching her 50m or so apart. She'll stop traffic twice instead of keeping the first group waiting 20 or 30 seconds so that the 2 groups can cross together.

In fact, I don't recall that I have ever seen her make the pedestrians wait, no matter how easy it would be to just wait for 3 or 4 cars to go by so that the traffic is not stopped.

07Lapierre

rich.d.berry wrote: »

I agree. There's one on my route too and it's almost as if she gets a kick out of seeing how many cars she can stop. The crossing is about 200m from traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing, but it's there because of a footpath between the houses leading to a school which starts on the other side of the road.

Sometimes she'll walk onto the crossing even before the pedestrians have got to the crossing and make everyone wait for them as they make their leisurely approach. At other times there'll be 2 groups of pedestrians approaching her 50m or so apart. She'll stop traffic twice instead of keeping the first group waiting 20 or 30 seconds so that the 2 groups can cross together.

In fact, I don't recall that I have ever seen her make the pedestrians wait, no matter how easy it would be to just wait for 3 or 4 cars to go by so that the traffic is not stopped.

+1 same here. They must be on commission for every car stopped! IOn my route they wait till the traffic lights trurn green , then they step out onto the eoad and stop the traffic! ( all because ONE kid wants to cross!)

Malari

07Lapierre wrote: »

Seven Lights and 5 Lolly-pop people! ( Who are worse than the lights!)

rich.d.berry wrote: »

I agree. There's one on my route too and it's almost as if she gets a kick out of seeing how many cars she can stop. The crossing is about 200m from traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing, but it's there because of a footpath between the houses leading to a school which starts on the other side of the road.

Sometimes she'll walk onto the crossing even before the pedestrians have got to the crossing and make everyone wait for them as they make their leisurely approach. At other times there'll be 2 groups of pedestrians approaching her 50m or so apart. She'll stop traffic twice instead of keeping the first group waiting 20 or 30 seconds so that the 2 groups can cross together.

In fact, I don't recall that I have ever seen her make the pedestrians wait, no matter how easy it would be to just wait for 3 or 4 cars to go by so that the traffic is not stopped.

My LPL is lovely! If she goes to step out and sees me coming she'll hesitate and wave me on. What irks me is the parents who dart across the 3 lanes of traffic with their kids only 25m down the road from the crossing :rolleyes:

manwithaplan

12 in 5km on the way in (assuming I go through Fairview Park which takes out a couple of sets).
16 on the way home

I'll have to review my route home!

mfdc

Crow92 wrote: »

Ha me neither till the "perfect commute thread" so I counted on the way home. I don't think I'll every get a perfect commute

I did the exact same thing yesterday after reading that thread Thinking about it yesterday I reckoned 44, but counting last night on the way home revealed that it's actually an even 50. Route is southside Dublin city center to Swords - the city center is the killer, 20 lights before I even get to Dorset St.

DePurpereWolf

11 in a 5km stretch.
I hate the pedestrian crossings. There's always the one ped that pushes the button and then just walks anyway making me stop for nothing.
You know what would work much better? A zebra crossing.

Oh, and police to fine drivers and cyclist who don't stop for pedestrians on the zebra crossing.

Crippens1

I've got 17 in 7Km. Thought it would be more as I go to the city centre from Booterstown. First 6 take me on the N4 to Donnybrook and are usually in my favour or short reds. Overall, I think it's OK for a city commute.

(I had to take the bus this morning and, stopped at the red light on Leeson St. Upper - Canal, I counted 18 cyclists passing from Dartmouth Walk to Mespil Rd. on their green light which I think is an impressively high volume of cycle traffic).

doozerie

42 lights for me, including pedestrian lights, averaging out at about 3.6 lights per kilometre. I can't think of a single set that I've never been stopped at but on average I'd say that I hit red on more than half of them on any given day.

Oh, and 2 lollipop ladies (well, 4 actually, 2 per stop). One of those is actually at a set of pedestrian lights, on Clanbrassil Street. I used to wonder why lollipop ladies were needed when the lights were already there but I regularly see cyclists barrel through those lights, weaving between pedestrians in the process, which answered that one. Mind you, I've seen some cyclists skim past the lollipop ladies too and I await the day that one of them employs their "lollipop" to maximum effect (would the fore-arm smash or back-hand smash be more effective? Questions such as this deserve answers).

cdaly_

doozerie wrote: »

I await the day that one of them employs their "lollipop" to maximum effect (would the fore-arm smash or back-hand smash be more effective? Questions such as this deserve answers).

I'd be inclined to thing the pointy-end-in-spokes jab would be most effective...



Hmm, then again, a fore-arm slice might work too...

macnab

Summerhill to Dunboyne: none, Dunboyne to Ringsend: 38.
So thats a total of 38 sets of lights in 44km.

funnights74

7, Distance 2.4 kms

Dubba

0 for me at the moment on 14km round trip but will soon have 3 as they are sprouting up all over the place, bloody road engineer tossers!