The AJC article mentioned the weight and the rough ride. I'd guess that yet another disadvantage of a wooden bicycle, at least when sharing the road with motor vehicles, is that it's impossible to trigger a green traffic signal [pineight.com] without enough metal surface to disturb the flux in the induction loop beneath the approach to the intersection. At some intersections, even a metal bicycle has a problem with that.
I'm fairly sure that here in the UK traffic lights are just on a set timing sequence.
Is it different in the US because you have a lot more infrequently used roads that require manual triggering?
That rather prompts the question of why you bother having lights at all at junctions where traffic is so infrequent.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @12:18PM (#48418131)
For the junction of a high traffic and low to medium traffic road, especially in cases where there is bad visibility. During rush hour the signal might be going continuously, but at other times it allows traffic on the high traffic road to be unimpeded.
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Is it different in the US because you have a lot more infrequently used roads that require manual triggering?
That rather prompts the question of why you bother having lights at all at junctions where traffic is so infrequent.
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