Daniel J. Stern
Then come to New York City, where the RLC intersections are conspicously NOT marked at all (if you use an RLC intersection enough, you learn to notice either the cantelevered poles supported camera box, or the newer 3-tube cameras like the one at 42nd St. and 2nd Ave.) The City Administration blathers on that this is so nobody knows which intersection is monitored and so that you are to buttume "any intersection is monitored". The city police and DOT are also kinda 'hand-wavey' when it comes to actual number of RL running instances, declines (or increases) in accidents, etc. I've read of several times when vehicles stopped at a RLC intersection will NOT get out of the way of an emergency vehicle, simply because the traffic court will generally NOT believe you ran the light to clear the way, and you get stuck with paying an unfair fine (I suppose those who monitor the images are supposed to notice the Ambulance-Fire Truck pbutting through immediately afterwards, but apparently they tend to miss this concept). If anyone remembers when this was mentioned in the Daily New's 'Gridlock Sam', and he kinda hemed and hawed and finally came up with 'you gotta get the time and location and ambulance-fire truck number' and lots of other crappola, and then maybe you can get the ticket dismissed... or maybe not - um, yeah - that's why nobody clears the ROW when stopped at a RLC intersection... (There was also talk that emergency personal should be able to disable-override the camera remotely, but I haven't seen anything else on this and quite frankly there's lots of talk about lots of things in NYC :p )
