After tonight’s meeting I checked if the light at Mountaineer Station was actuated by bicycle.
In short, I believe it is actuated by a bicycle. It looks like the wait time is around 1:15 for an approach “mid-cycle”, with a maximum wait of 2mins if you arrive at the yellow light. The light does not seem to cycle at all if no vehicles are present.
Here is the data I collected for every vehicle that made a left hand turn. I think some right hand turning cars initiated the timer before a left hand approached. I think bike times are higher than avg because I approached very quickly after the cycle. I collected this on 2/2/12 between 8:25 and 9:00pm. I positioned myself at the center of the stop bar for a left hand turn, wearing a red jacket, blue jeans and helmet light.
Car | 0:55 | Applebees | |
Car | 0:06 | Applebees | |
Van | 2:00 | Mtnr Station | (Approached immediately after light cycled) |
Bike | 1:15 | Mtnr Station | (Car approached from Applebees at 0:20) |
Bus | 1:14 | Mtnr Station | |
SUV | 1:44 | Mtnr Station | |
Multi cars | 1:12 | Both | (May have been triggered early by car turning right) |
Car | 1:11 | Applebees | |
SUV | 1:55 | Applebees | |
Bike | 1:50 | Mtnr Station | (Car approached from Applebees at 0:10) |
Bike | 0:48 | Mtnr Station | (Already triggered by car?) |
Bike | 1:50 | Mtnr Station |