manually controlled traffic lights?

[UKtom]

just out of pure interest... does anyone know if some traffic lights manually controlled? i mean, do people control them from a control centre (like you see on the italian job)? or can they be manually over-ridden, so someone chooses when they turn green etc? because after doing town lifts tonight, 2 sets of traffic lights (quite close to each other) turned red as i approached, and stayed red for literally 2-3 whole minutes, with no one else about... then the same happened at the next set of lights, as though someone was controlling them and playing a joke on me haha.. :fcuk:
tried a couple of tricks, flashing my headlights to activate the sensor, reversing then moving forward as though i was approaching the lights again... but still nothing :S i was too scared to jump the lights LOL, didnt want to risk a ticket :homme: has this happened to anyone else before?

[adjy90]

traffic lights like doing this to me every weekend when im taking and picking the gf up from work. it gets annoying >.<

[dankzy]

nope, all traffic lights are controlled by plc's, they do have different settings depending on time of day, for rush hour for example, probably have had a fault the ones you were at, who be to risky and expensive to have people controlling them

[jonas2112]

A lot of traffic lights have the sensors laid into the tarmac, so when you drive over it, control box knows your waiting.

[Mochachino]

Yeh, everysingle traffic light in the UK is controlled by a polish man in a room pressing buttins all day.

[adjy90]

Yeh, everysingle traffic light in the UK is controlled by a polish man in a room pressing buttins all day.

:panic:

are you said polish man?

[VTHall]

Theres one set of traffic lights where i am, stays green untill you get up to it and always goes red, all the time.
Its a bastard.

[haz_pro]

One of the lights near mr they painted the stop line too far back so to get the lights to go green you have to drive over the line a little bit. Try that hah.

[Lionsden]

There's a house near me that is right on a junction with traffic lights, they have a button in their garden to press and the lights go green for them to leave their driveway.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x245/Lionsden-Newcastle/Random/PersonaltrafficlighttopofStBedes.jpg

[VTHall]

There's a house near me that is right on a junction with traffic lights, they have a button in their garden to press and the lights go green for them to leave their driveway.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x245/Lionsden-Newcastle/Random/PersonaltrafficlighttopofStBedes.jpg

thats pretty cool :A:

[haz_pro]

That is awesome, i would be rather tempted to annoy people with it though haha.

[Oli_K]

Only light I know that can be manually over ridden are in London, watched a program once they have a main control centre to keep a eye on congestion and can alter lights as they see fit

[Sean_VTR]

That is awesome, i would be rather tempted to annoy people with it though haha.

+1 :y: haha!