You can by the creeping who has auto transmission.
Yeah, and the creepers are even more annoying when you’re behind them on two wheels.
Foot down. Foot up, roll five feet. Foot down. Foot up, roll eight feet. Foot down. Foot up, roll six feet …
ARRRRRRGGGGHHH!!!
I have delivered pizzas before, and getting the light to change quickly is a big deal to me. I am usually the guy that’s sitting one space back from the stop line, because here, that’s where the sensor is. The sensors in central ohio are mostly magnetic, as are most drive thru places. Also, the sensors are usually 1 space back, indicating 2 cars waiting.
So, the person that is waiting 1 space back is not neccisarily an idiot. As for the stopping and going at lights, I have found (through repeated experimentation) that some older lights don’t sense your car right away, or think that cars are running the light, and change more quickly when you do the “stop and go”.
I do NOT subscribe to the school of flashing your brights at a light in order to make it change faster, this is simply a way to kill time while the light goes through it’s normal cycle.
If you have a bike that doesn’t trigger light signals, consider taking a route with fewer left turns. I know it sounds strange and in some cases is implausible, but I know from experience that the route you take can be of greater distance, yet still be much faster as a result of fewer left turns and stop/lights signs in general.
You can also do this in either Wisconson or Michigan, can’t remember which. There is also one of the sounthern states, one of the Carolinas or Georgia that is planning the same thing. Any more I just run them if there is no one around. I waited a few minutes during a ride in PA over the weekend in the middle of the night until I just started running them.
I"ve never seen anyone park to far back, here in Maryland I always see people pull in front of the white line, then they just run the red light. I’m guessing that the stop here on red signs mean nothing.