It appeared the light at the construction site between 236 and 35 was stuck this morning. I came up on it and there were five or six cars there in front of me, I had let most if not all of them by me at the 9/236 intersection. Ok, it should change soon. We waited. Cars behind me beyond the curve. We waited. A car came through from the other direction. We waited. Another truck came through. This is wrong. The road workers were out of sight. I thought I could pull off to the right and find one to kick the lights. But someone honked behind me. Shit. I’ll just go and flag off any oncoming cars until this gathering passed through. I pulled left, no one coming (I could see, I was in my Jeep and tall enough) and I passed the six in front of me.
As soon as I passed the second car in line the light turned green!
Woo hoo! I’m in front of an angry crowd on Hwy9 in my slow and poorly handling Jeep!
I suspect I kicked the motion sensor at our end into wakefulness.
Lesson: If it seem you aren’t getting through… maybe move forward a little to wake up the sensor. The people up front seemed content to wait forever.
