Traffic Lights

Marcel and Rüdiger, I still feel that I need to say thanks for such an amazing simulator, and on top of that, being released surprisingly early! Unbelievable amounts of detail have been put into this game, and though I've only made two complete runs I've spent two full days just driving around, getting to know the route and taking in the scenery. I'm not even close to being anywhere near bored with this simulator

After driving through so many intersections with what seems to be different signal timings, I was wondering: are the traffic lights triggered by the traffic or are they timed? It's a bit of a random question but I'm very curious about it!

Also, is the switch to the right of the dash, on top of some sort of console a defroster? Do the windows fog up? If so, I probably haven't set the weather quite right yet

The traffic lights are timed and don't react to the traffic amount. But there are influencable traffic lights, too: At Reimerweg terminus, there's a bus signal to get out of the loop. Your bus places a request once it has come closer that 10m to this light (an "A" will appear to show the driver that the light has noticed a bus nearby).

Ah, okay, I was at one of the bus signals at one point trying to figure out how to get it to work. The first time I just went and heard all of the passengers yell at once. Must've ran a red light or something Second time I figured out the bus signal.