Kind of a shower thought but a question.
If you’re driving and stop at a red light, it cycles thru green and back to red, and you still have to wait, do you think that’s 1 stop or 2 stops or something in between?
You mean if there was enough traffic ahead of you at the lights that by the time you reached them they’d gone red again? In that scenario you still pulled forwards and then had to stop again, so I’d consider it two stops.
It’s only one stop if you stopped once and then didn’t move at all between one red light and the next (in which case either the entire queue is blocked from entering the junction, or you’re doing something wrong).
This would be my take with the only caveat being if the green light was exceedingly short due to emergency vehicles. Rather than saying that’s 2 stops I’d mention the emergency vehicles and they messed with the timing.
Ah, I didn’t consider that! It’s not a thing in the UK.
Your lights won’t change with an emergency vehicle needing to get through? How do they manage?
People here are well-trained enough to make a hole.
At least where I’m from the stop lights start switching before the emergency vehicle gets to the intersection. It helps clear the traffic in the direction the emergency vehicle is going. We are a little more car centric in the states so maybe you just don’t run into the issue where that becomes the solution.
Special case exemption.
It depends on what the purpose of classifying it is. If we’re talking about what the car actually did, I’d probably call it 2 stops. If we’re talking about “how many stops are there between point A and point B?”, it’s 1 stop.
Depends on how far back from the intersection I was before getting the second light.
If it’s like the bullshit one right at the corner where I live, it’s 2 sometimes 3 stops when it only is green long enough for 2 maybe 3 vehicles to proceed before going back to red.
If it’s so far away I can’t see it, it’s one stop.
2 stops.
Do you use the brake pedal twice? 2 stops.
