We have a light on our regular route that never changes for us. We wait, and wait for a car. It's a relatively busy side road, and everybody is turning instead of crossing. It leads to the highway overpass, so the morning are terrible. Occassionally we get a car, but we usually have to run it. I've contacted the road department (after research from here) and asked them to adjust the sensitivity. I received an email back saying they couldn't. Bummer. We live in a bike friendly town, so I need to try again.

I've read someplaces, if you wait a cycle then it's legal to run it. I try to do that but 45 sec sounds better.