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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Are the induction loop controls at traffic lights widely used across Canada or does Calgary have a significant amount of these? I ask because so many drivers have been pissing me off lately (and this could go in the gear grinder thread) by stopping to far back on the intersection and not triggering the lights. A bad one that I run into often is the dual turn from Shaganappi onto Dalhousie Drive. The other weekend it was backed up with 20+ cars in each lane because the idiots up front in both lanes were too far back. I had arrived and waited for three lights before they finally moved up and triggered the arrow and cars had already been waiting ahead of me.
Often times I see the cars that are too far back with pretty new plates so I wonder if they are new to Calgary and unfamiliar with the loops. Old people are often bad for this as well.
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Agreed regarding people staying too far back to trigger lights. Interestingly my family was driving in Cochrane this weekend and there was a sign in the middle median on the road turning south onto highway 22 that basically said - move up to the stop line to trigger the traffic lights. I have not seen that before, but could be used unfortunately in many areas in Calgary.