My town is full of pavement sensors. They are tripped by steel. Therefore, you either need to ride a steel bike, make sure the front person in your pack is on steel bike, hope a car shows up real soon, or use caution and go. This supposedly bike-friendly town thinks that is is "safe" to place the buttons for bicyclists on the far right side of a multi-laned road with both left and right turn lanes. Ah well, they also think that separate bike paths cutting across shopping mall entrances with the car stop sign beyond the path is a good thing. Oh, and let me tell you about the number of shopping areas where the bike path and the sidewalk are one and the same.