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for some reason when on my pcx the traffic lights don't change at all intersections

I believe some intersections use magnetic pickups to trigger the next light change, and we don't have much of a vehicle to do that with.

I believe this was a topic a couple of years ago, if I recall correctly. And if memory service me right, one of the solutions is to put magnets on the underframe of the bike and that is supposed to help trip the sensors. Try to Google search it, and I am sure you will find something.

Yes, this is a pain here too. Have to make sure there is a car ahead of you so you can get the light and turn. Kind of hard to do when there are no cars around to trip the light sensor. I make sure to plan another route that is either busy or find an intersection to turn that doesn't use a dedicated turn light.

Use the Force young Jedi! We have metal detection at security gates at work and luckily this works fine with my little ol PCX, although normal size lanes not wide ones like in the US

It also helps to learn where they are located at the intersections you normally travel.

There was one at the top of the street at the last place lived in the US. It was positioned about 1½ cars lengths behind the stop line. If you did not stop over top of it, it wouldn't trip, even with a car. I soon learned its position and it would typically trip with seconds of stopping on it. I would see other cars sit there for minutes if they overshot it. They never seemed to clue into the fact that it tripped when someone pulled up behind them.

Not just scooters, law makes me wait a couple minutes and then I can proceed as if its a yield. The ones I know won't recognize a motorbike are many.

No problem with that on Thailand, except for when I'm late all the intersection are suddenly red when I'm approaching.

alx123 wrote:No problem with that on Thailand, except for when I'm late all the intersection are suddenly red when I'm approaching.

There you are... I see you now you need a subway or elevated train. Why no public transportation other than rickshaw?

I have tried stopping directly over where the wires of the detectors are inlaid in the pavement. I don't know that this is the answer. Your best bet--other than running the light-- is to sneak into an alley or a parking lot and wait until a car approaches the intersection--then get out fast and sit behind the car.

I have often just waited 30 seconds and then run the light. I only do this when there is no one behind me, ahead on the other side, or anywhere visible on the street to be crossed.

I think the OP was trying to say the lights through Bangkok are not synced and he hits every red on the way to work. I suggest a job location going in the other direction because you won't change the powers to be in city traffic management. At least that's a lost cause in Chicago.

homie wrote:

alx123 wrote:No problem with that on Thailand, except for when I'm late all the intersection are suddenly red when I'm approaching.

There you are... I see you now you need a subway or elevated train. Why no public transportation other than rickshaw?

The is indeed a good subway and elevated train system. The YouTube video you posted was taken from the walkway of the elevated train line which runs left/right to the camera angle. The subway runs directly under the road where the vehicles are sitting (up/down to the camera angle). That intersection is 2 blocks from my home. The challenge is fitting 14-18 million people into the city.

You have 14 million people in the city

homie wrote:I think the OP was trying to say the lights through Bangkok are not synced and he hits every red on the way to work. I suggest a job location going in the other direction because you won't change the powers to be in city traffic management. At least that's a lost cause in Chicago.

Correct, the lights are not synced. Typically, there is a police booth at major intersections (such as the one where the YouTube you posted was taken). The police monitor the traffic and control the lights at will. Sometimes they have been know to let one direction sit for 10-15 minutes and I wonder if it isn't because they are pissed off at someone in that line of traffic, so they make them wait. When the traffic is thinner they will put the light on automatic so that each section has to wait about 3 mins before they get the green light.

As Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, "I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore."

kramnala58 wrote:The police monitor the traffic and control the lights at will. Sometimes they have been know to let one direction sit for 10-15 minutes and I wonder if it isn't because they are pissed off at someone in that line of traffic.

I would have put something in their tip jar

homie wrote:You have 14 million people in the city

It is a guesstimate by many, but that would be the metro Bangkok area. When my son and daughter-in-law visited a couple of years ago, and we were on the observation deck of what was then the city's largest building, she said of the city as she looked to the horizon, "It never ends."

homie wrote:

kramnala58 wrote:The police monitor the traffic and control the lights at will. Sometimes they have been know to let one direction sit for 10-15 minutes and I wonder if it isn't because they are pissed off at someone in that line of traffic.

I would have put something in their tip jar

Driver's often put something in their "tip" jar. When pulled over for a driving infraction (or supposed infraction), it is well know to take a 100 baht bill ($3) out of your wallet with your license and you will soon be on your way.

kramnala58 wrote:

homie wrote:You have 14 million people in the city

It is a guesstimate by many, but that would be the metro Bangkok area. When my son and daughter-in-law visited a couple of years ago, and we were on the observation deck of what was then the city's largest building, she said of the city as she looked to the horizon, "It never ends."

Oh, if you count subdivisions I guess Chicagoland might have a few million, I don't know.

you can bribe a cop for 3 bucks then a c-note should sync the dam lights

surprised me but the magnetic sensors here are tripped by my PCX. There seems to be a circular pad outlined on the surface of the pavement. Sit my ass right in the middle of that circle-and bingo-I'm good to go.
Might have something to do with the highway I have to cross or enter it being a high priority in the minds of our provincial government. I see the maintenance contractor continually fine tuning the process

Sometimes I move into the crosswalk and motion the car behind to close the gap. Surprising how may people comply without even understanding why.