North Carolina Exhibits
NC1 | Yellow-Light Flaw in One Page |
Dec 2, 2018 | |
NC2 | American Traffic Solutions--All Citations Illegal in One Page |
Dec 2, 2018 | |
NC3 | American Traffic Solutions (aka., Verra Mobility) -- Engineering without a LicenseOn November 29, 2018, the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Land Surveyors (NCBELS) declared that American Traffic Solutions (ATS) is guilty of practicing engineering without a license. By NCGS-160A(a1) (city) or NCGS 153A(a1) (county), not a single red light camera in Wilmington, Fayetteville and Greenville has been installed legally. Every citation issued by American Traffic Solutions in North Carolina has been illegal. The red-light camera installation plans are engineering plans, but the plans are not certified by a licensed professional engineer and the firm producing the plans, American Traffic Solutions, is not licensed to practice engineering in North Carolina. We know that American Traffic Solutions is also guilty of this same problem in New York and Louisiana. We know that Conduent (aka Xerox) is guilty in New York. The problem most likely extends to most States where red-light camera companies do business. |
Nov 20, 2022 | |
NC4 | Redflex Practicing Engineering without a License - Cease and Desist - 2007 |
Apr 27, 2019 | |
NC5 | NC MUTCD 2012 Supplement |
May 28, 2014 | |
NC6 | MUTCD Speed Limit should be 85th Percentile |
May 28, 2014 | |
NC7 | NCDOT Standard Practice for Signed and Sealed Signal Plans |
Oct 9, 2012 | |
NC8 | NCDOT Guidelines for the Preparation of Signal and ITS Plans (includes certification requirements) |
Apr 2, 2018 | |
NC9 | 21 NCAC 56-1103 Engineer Certification Requirements |
Mar 22, 2018 | |
NC10 | NCGS 153A-357(a1) Requires Engineering Plans to be Certified for county building permits. |
Mar 9, 2018 | |
NC11 | NCGS 160A-417(a1) Requires Engineering Plans to be Certified for city building permits. |
Nov 20, 2022 | |
NC12 | Public Information NCGS 132 |
Mar 23, 2018 | |
NC13 | NCDOT Transportation Systems Management and Operation (TSMO) Unit Design Manual, Signal Design Section Part 1, 2021The yellow change interval spec is Std. No. 5.2.2 Sheet 5 of 5, on page 130 |
Mar 19, 2023 | |
NC14 | NCDOT Yellow Change Interval Spec, 2012 |
May 7, 2014 | |
NC15 | NCDOT ITS Unit Design Manual. Std 5-2-2, Sheet 4 of 4, 2012The yellow change interval spec is Std. No. 5.2.2 Sheet 4 of 4, on page 100 |
May 7, 2014 | |
NC16 | NCDOT ITS Unit Design Manual - 2017 |
Feb 28, 2018 | |
NC17 | NCDOT Spec History Confuses All-Red Clearance With Yellow Change Intervals |
May 25, 2011 | |
NC18 | NCSITE Task Force Yellow Change Interval CommunicationsThe smoking gun that the NCSITE Task Force does not know what their Formula means. The NCSITE Task Force misapplies the Formula to left turning movements. In an explicit statement, NCSITE admits that they do not know how to model left turning movements. So instead of hiring a physicist to tell them how to model such a case, NCSITE guesses and guesses wrong. NCSITE uses the ITE Formula. But the ITE Formula does not provide enough yellow time for vehicular movements that require a vehicle to slow down before entering the intersection. The Formula only models straight-through movement vehicles that proceed unimpeded to and through the intersection at the maximum allowable speed (at least the speed limit). On top of that error, NCSITE measures approach speed at the stop bar instead of at the critical distance thus violating a law of physics embedded in the Formula. NCSITE invalidly assumes all vehicles in the left turn lane are in a queue. NCSITE assumes all these cars are going 22.9 mph. That assumption forces non-queued cars legally traveling unimpeded at > 22.9 mph at distances over 100 ft from the intersection with a green arrow in front of them, to run a red light. NCSITE forces school buses to run red lights. By explicit design, NCSITE does not provide yellow durations which accommodate 'unique vehicle streams'. Vehicles with air-brakes, like school buses, are unique vehicle streams. By design, the yellow duration is 0.75 seconds too short for commercial truck drivers. |
Oct 29, 2012 | |
NC19 | Application of the ITE Change and Clearance Interval Formulas in North Carolina, ITE NCSITE 2004 Task Force, 2008 |
Sep 5, 2012 | |
NC20 | Old Cary Citation New Cary CitationCompare old and new pages 2 and 4. After confronting Cary's issuing of fraudulent citations at our hearing in January 2012, Cary decided not to chance Judge Ridgeway's adding a third class of 50,000 plaintiffs to the already existing lawsuit. And so Cary corrected the wording on the citation to match the law. According to the 2001 Wake County law, if the owner gets a ticket but the owner was not driving, the owner neither has to pay nor identify the driver. Though Cary fixed its citations, Raleigh still issues fraudulent citations. |
Oct 3, 2014 | |
NC21 | Accuser Controls Verdict |
Oct 11, 2012 | |
NC22 | Charges Against the Town of Cary |
Feb 1, 2012 | |
NC23 | Cary Raw Red Light Camera Data |
Nov 25, 2013 | |
NC24 | Cary Citations by Intersection Graphs |
Jan 8, 2013 | |
NC25 | Cary Time into Red HistogramsGraphs of 140,000 citations--the field proof that the laws of physics apply. The amount of time drivers need to react to the onset of a yellow light depends solely on physics. The length of the yellow time is irrelevant. The amount of time drivers run the red light equals the difference between the amount of time required for physics minus the on-the-ground yellow time. The difference is v/2(a +Gg). |
May 18, 2014 | |
NC26 | Cary Citations Spreadsheet |
Feb 20, 2011 | |
NC27 | Cary Short Yellows and Turns Spreadsheet |
Sep 17, 2012 | |
NC28 | Cary Red Light Camera Intersection Signal Plans |
Jan 18, 2011 | |
NC29 | Cary's Redflex Contract & Accounting Ledger |
Jan 8, 2011 | |
NC30 | Cary Controls Its Own Traffic Signals |
Jun 28, 2012 | |
NC30 | Cary Towne Blvd is 45 mph Since 1984 |
Oct 2, 2012 |
Fayetteville
NCF1 | NCBELS: American Traffic Solutions Practicing Engineering Without a LicenseAmerican Traffic Solutions is guilty of practicing engineering without a license not only in Fayetteville, but also in Wilmington and Greenville. All the cameras have been installed illegally. A company cannot construct a engineering work without first having plans for that work signed and sealed by a North Carolina licensed professional engineer--an engineer with responsible charge of the work. The company as well as the engineer must be licensed to practice engineering in North Carolina. |
Dec 2, 2018 | |
NCF2 | Traffic Signal PlansFayetteville restarted their red light camera program in July 2015. When we asked Fayetteville for the traffic signal plans, it sent these. From the plans we know that the NCDOT tampered with every intersection in the year before camera installation. The Fayetteville City Council also claimed that they had NCDOT's approval to install the cameras. The problem is, is that two of these signal plans are not signed by a professional engineer, and for the third one, some Fayetteville official went out of his to blot out the signature and seal of the engineer. Two of them have no legal approval, and Fayetteville intentionally is concealing the ID of the engineer who drew up the plans. We do not know what the City of Fayetteville is trying to hide, but our guess is that the City shortened the yellow lights. |
Aug 27, 2015 | |
NCF3 | Illegal CitationsThe citations the City of Fayetteville / American Traffic Solutions issue are illegal. They omit your legal rights. The city ordinances violates with the North Carolina enabling statute. The enabling statute violates the North Carolina Constitution and the federal Credit Reporting Act. |
Mar 18, 2017 | |
NCF4 | Verra Mobility Terminates Fayetteville ContractVerra Mobility decided not to renew Fayetteville's contract. This may be the first time a red-light camera company, not the city council, chose to cancel its contract |
Nov 16, 2022 |
Greenville
NCG1 | ACLU Friend of the Court BriefTo the NC Supreme Court. A brief against red-light cameras -- in favor of the plaintiffs. This brief describes many reasons why law enforcement for a profit is bad. |
Aug 8, 2023 | |
NCG2 | NCICL Friend of the Court BriefTo the NC Supreme Court. A brief against Greenville's attempt to pervert the NC Constitution, allowing government to divert funds from the public schools. |
Aug 8, 2023 | |
NCG3 | NC Appellate Court Ruling - Fearrington, Malmrose vs City of GreenvilleGreenville lost. |
Mar 15, 2022 | |
NCG4 | NCBELS: American Traffic Solutions Practicing Engineering Without a LicenseAmerican Traffic Solutions is guilty of practicing engineering without a license not only in Greenville, but also in Wilmington and Fayetteville. All the cameras have been installed illegally. A company cannot construct a engineering work without first having plans for that work signed and sealed by a North Carolina licensed professional engineer--an engineer with responsible charge of the work. The company as well as the engineer must be licensed to practice engineering in North Carolina. |
Dec 2, 2018 | |
NCG5 | NCBELS: Rennebaum Illegally Seals Red-Light Camera Installation PlansThough Rennebaum is a licensed professional engineer in North Carolina, he did not oversee the work. The seal and signature for engineering plans must be those of the engineer in responsible charge of the work. NCBELS suspends Rennebaum's license over this. |
May 29, 2019 | |
NCG6 | NCBELS Suspends Rennebaum's Professional Engineering LicenseNCBELS suspends Rennebaum's license for rubberstamping American Traffic Solution's red-light camera installation plans. |
Dec 5, 2019 | |
NCG7 | Traffic Signal PlansThe accuser in red light camera cases is the traffic engineer who signed and sealed the traffic signal plan of record. You will find the name of your accuser on the traffic signal plan containing the Timing Chart for the intersection where you got the ticket. The engineer is ultimately responsible for any penalty or injury you sustain at his intersection due to his engineering malpractice. It is the traffic engineer who allows the red light camera to be placed at the intersection. Without the approval of the traffic engineer, there can be no red light camera. To understand the traffic engineer's role, watch this 1967 episode of Star Trek. "Capt. Kirk" is you and "Finney" is the traffic engineer. |
Oct 13, 2017 | |
NCG8 | Red Light Camera Installation Plans |
Mar 28, 2018 | |
NCG9 | Complaint (Lawsuit) |
Oct 13, 2017 | |
NCG10 | Press Release of Lawsuit |
Oct 13, 2017 | |
NCG11 | Engineering Non-Conformance Affidavit |
Feb 5, 2018 | |
NCG12 | Unintentional Red Light Violation (ring-barrier failure) Video 1 and Video 2This American Traffic Solutions video is at Fire Tower Road at Arlington Road. Both the left turn and straight-through yellows are supposed to end at the same time. They don't. This creates an unexcepted trap for the driver. The left turn phase is compatible with the straight-through phase and must end simultaenously. From NCDOT ITS Manual, definitions: "Dual-Ring Controller - A controller unit containing two interlocking rings which are arranged to time in a preferred sequence and to allow concurrent timing of compatible phases in both rings, subject to the restraint of the barrier. Each of the compatible phase groups must cross the barrier simultaneously to select and time phases in the phase group on the other side." |
Apr 23, 2018 |
Knightdale
NCK1 | Knightdale Citation Fraud and Perjury Example-George Deaton's Ticket of the Midnight Sun |
Oct 24, 2012 | |
NCK2 | The Problem at Knightdale Blvd at Wide WatersAccording to the Knightdale Police Department, crashes increased 78% at Knightdale Blvd at Wide Waters from 2003 to 2012. The red light cameras went up in 2004. This March 4, 2013 ticket shows you why. The driver turning left got the ticket. It looks like he is running a yellow light. It is the signal heads, the angle of the road and the number of lanes that pose a visual problem: 1) The signal heads do not have back plates to make the signal indication stand out against the background. 2) Knightdale Blvd is wide road and the signal heads are relatively far away. 3) Because of the acute angle Widewaters Parkway makes with Knightdale Blvd, the straight-through lane signal heads are directly in front of the left-turning driver. The left turn signal heads face the left-turning driver only after he begins his turn. 4) There are two left turn lanes and one through lane, but there are two straight-through signal heads. It all combines to create a serious visual problem for the driver. The driver thought he had a green light or at least a yellow. Though not evident in this picture, the NCDOT creates another problem by setting the left-turn yellow change interval to 3.0 seconds. By the laws of physics, a left turning driver entering the intersection from this 35 mph -2% grade at 24 mph requires at least 4.2 seconds to traverse the critical distance. This signal plan was drafted by NE Burns and signed by William Hamilton on August 26, 2011. |
Aug 23, 2013 | |
NCK3 | Knightdale Committed FraudThis exhibit is Safelight Knightdale red light camera citation issued December 21, 2012. It shows that Safelight Knightdale was issuing fraudulent tickets. Mayor Russell Killen, Police Chief Jason Godwin, Town Attorney Clyde Holt and the Town Council of Knightdale, know that the Town of Knightdale committed fifty thousand of acts of fraud by sending out red light camera citations prohibiting vehicle owners their legal right to say, "I was not driving at the time and location on the citation." The owner does not have to pay, give up the driver or correct the time or location information on the citation. This legal right is granted by NC Session Law 2003-3(d)(1)c and Knightdale Town Code Section 74.03 (b)(3). Beginning April 2013, the Town of Knightdale started wording its tickets legally though confusingly. In November 2013, Knightdale terminated their red light camera program. |
May 28, 2014 | |
NCK4 | Knightdale Traffic Signal Plans |
Oct 29, 2012 |
Raleigh
NCR1 | Raleigh Traffic Signal Plans |
Sep 24, 2014 | |
NCR2 | Raleigh Red-Light Camera Installation Plans |
May 29, 2018 | |
NCR3 | Raleigh/ACS Contract - 2008On page 18, under paragraph "Collections", ACS worked with the City of Raleigh to "re-design the notices for more impact and effectiveness to improve collection rates."
| Mar 9, 2014 | |
NCR4 | Raleigh Safelight Portal - Oct 7, 2013Under "Adjudication Process", this version of Raleigh's website omits all wording and references that the owner of a vehicle, when not driving, neither has to pay nor give up the driver. Raleigh omits an owner's legal options in order to secure payment. | Mar 9, 2014 | |
NCR5 | Raleigh RLC Safety Effectiveness Study by AECOM - 2012Even though is study was authored by a large engineering firm, this study is typical of others. The study avoids the scientific method thus making its conclusions invalid. |
August 7, 2014 | |
NCR6 | Raleigh Safelight Citation |
Sep 21, 2014 |
Wilmington
NCW1 | NCBELS: American Traffic Solutions Practicing Engineering Without a LicenseAmerican Traffic Solutions is guilty of practicing engineering without a license not only in Wilmington, but also in Fayetteville and Greenville. All the cameras have been installed illegally. A company cannot construct a engineering work without first having plans for that work signed and sealed by a North Carolina licensed professional engineer--an engineer with responsible charge of the work. The company as well as the engineer must be licensed to practice engineering in North Carolina. |
Dec 2, 2018 | |
NCW2 | Wilmington Contract with ATS - 2009 |
Sep 4, 2014 | |
NCW3 | Wilmington Contract with ATS - Amendment 2012 |
Sep 4, 2014 | |
NCW4 | Wilmington Agreement with New Hanover County - 2009 |
Sep 4, 2014 | |
NCW5 | Wilmington Agreement Amendment with New Hanover County - 2014 |
Sep 4, 2014 | |
NCW6 | Wilmington Safelight Citation |
Sep 21, 2014 | |
NCW7 | Wilmington Traffic Signal Plans |
Oct 13, 2017 | |
NCW8 | Red Light Camera Installation Plans - 2018 |
Mar 28, 2018 | |
NCW9 | Red Light Camera Installation Plans - 2023The City of Wilmington redacted the PE certifications. One cannot tell whether these plans are certified. It is illegal to redact certification seals from engineering plans. Verra Mobility is still the name in the title block of the firm producing the plans. Verra Mobility is not licensed in the North Carolina to practice engineering. I filed complaint V2023-060 with NCBELS for the unlicensed practice of engineering by a firm and, and for producing uncertified plans. There is no PE certification on the plans because redaction counts as non-existence. The PE's name in the title block, Essam Tawfik Ali Mansour, NC Lic. #050958, lives in Maryland. It appears that Verra Mobility may be repeating its Greenville transgression.
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Aug 10, 2023 | |
NCW10 | Unsteady Yellow LightThis official red-light camera video shows the yellow and red signal lights dimming and brightening at the intersection of Market Street and 23rd. This dimming and brightening is most likely a result of Verra Mobility's image processing. It is a process which tampers with the evidence by brightening the signal lights in order to make drivers look reckless. In this case, the image processing algorithm is buggy. By tampering with the evidence or by truly having an unsteady yellow at the intersection, it is unlawful for Wilmington to issue a citation. |
Sep 21, 2023 | |
NCW11 | Wilmington Raw Red Light Camera Data (from ATS) |
Sep 15, 2014 |
Ceccarelli vs. Town of Cary, Wake County Superior Court Case 10-CVS-019930
NC-CA | Definitions of Engineering |
Sep 12, 2012 | |
NC-CB | Arguments for the Prosecution |
Oct 4, 2012 | |
NC-CC | Entrapment Regarding Beating the Light |
Oct 18, 2012 | |
NC-CD | Motion for a New Trial |
Mar 4, 2013 | |
NC-CE | Motion for a New Trial - Affidavit Brian Ceccarelli |
Mar 4, 2013 | |
NC-CF | Order and Judgment |
Mar 4, 2013 | |
NC-CG | Brian Ceccarelli's Court Outline |
Jan 12, 2013 | |
NC-CH | The People in the Classes |
Jan 12, 2013 | |
NC-CI | Defendant's Motion to Strike Plaintiff's Expert Witnesses |
Jan 10, 2013 | |
NC-CJ | Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment |
Jan 10, 2013 | |
NC-CK | Defendant's Motion for Relief from Order Denying Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment |
Jan 10, 2013 | |
NC-CL | Defendant's Affidavits Filed in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment |
Jan 10, 2013 | |
NC-CM | Plaintiff's Pretrial Brief |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CN | Brian Ceccarelli's Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CO | Johnnie Hennings, P.E., Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CP | Town of Cary's Pretrial Brief |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CQ | Dr. Joseph Hummer's Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CR | Daren Marceau, P.E.'s Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CS | Johnnie Henning's Critique of Marceau's Affidavit |
Jan 11, 2013 | |
NC-CT | Gregory Fuller, P.E.'s Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CU | Lisa Moon, P.E.'s Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CV | David Spencer, P.E.'s Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CW | Gene Murr, P.E.'s Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CX | Alfred Grandy's Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CY | Sue Rowland Pretrial Affidavit |
Dec 17, 2012 | |
NC-CZ | Plaintiff's Expert Witness Designation |
Oct 1, 2012 | |
NC-CAA | Deposition of Brian CeccarelliPlaintiff and Expert Witness. Though unusual, it is legal for the plaintiff to be an expert witness. Ceccarelli has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Arizona. Ceccarelli was also a consultant for the NCDOT. |
Sep 4, 2012 | |
NC-CAB | Deposition of Lori MillettePlaintiff |
Sep 4, 2012 | |
NC-CAC | Deposition of Elizabeth George, Ph.D.Plaintiff's Expert Witness. Dr. George is the head of the physics department at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. The video of this deposition is the next exhibit. |
Sep 13, 2012 | |
NC-CAD | Video Deposition of Elizabeth George, Ph.D.Starting at timestamp 7:37:25, the Town of Cary's lawyer, Elizabeth Martineau, objects to the laws of physics and moves to strike them. Plaintiff's Expert Witness. Dr. George is the head of the physics department at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. |
Sep 13, 2012 | |
NC-CAE | Deposition of Joseph Shovlin, Ph.D.Plaintiff's Expert Witness. Dr. Shovlin is a physicist at Cree in RTP. Dr. Shovlin received his Ph.D. in physics from Ohio University. |
Sep 15, 2012 | |
NC-CAF | Deposition of Johnnie Hennings, P.E.Plaintiff's Expert Witness. Mr. Hennings is a professional engineer at Accident Reconstruction Analysis, Inc. in Raleigh, NC. |
Oct 30, 2012 | |
NC-CAG | Cary's Expert Witness Designation |
Oct 4, 2012 | |
NC-CAH | Deposition of Lisa Moon, P.E.Cary's Expert Witness. Ms. Moon is the Senior Project Manager for Atkins. Atkins is a private engineering firm that designs signalized intersections for the NCDOT. Ms. Moon has designed over 750 signals. |
Oct 9, 2012 | |
NC-CAI | Deposition of Gregory Fuller, P.E.Cary's Expert Witness. Mr. Fuller is the head of the Intelligent Traffic Systems and Signals Unit for the NCDOT |
Oct 15, 2012 | |
NC-CAJ | Deposition of Joseph Hummer, Ph.D.Cary's Expert Witness. Dr. Hummer is a Professor of Civil Engineering. Dr. Hummer also wrote the pro-camera paper: Evaluating the Use of Red Light Running Photographic Enforcement Using Collisions and Red Light Running Violations |
Oct 17, 2012 | |
NC-CAK | Deposition of Daren Marceau, P.E.Cary's Expert Witness. A former police officer, Mr. Marceau is now a professional engineer specializing in traffic crash reconstruction involving traffic control devices. |
Oct 31, 2012 | |
NC-CAM | Public Notice of Class Action |
Aug 29, 2012 | |
NC-CAN | Class Action Certified |
Jun 21, 2012 | |
NC-CAO | Plaintiff's Opposition to Cary's Motion to Dismiss |
Jan 25, 2012 | |
NC-CAP | Affidavit of Brian Ceccarelli |
Dec 12, 2011 | |
NC-CAQ | Affidavit of Dr. Elizabeth George |
Dec 5, 2011 | |
NC-CAR | Deposition of David Spencer Jr., P.E.Cary's witness. Traffic Engineer, Town of Cary. Deposition taken in Discovery Process |
Jun 24, 2011 | |
NC-CAS | Deposition of Tim Bailey, P.E.Cary's witness. Director of Engineering, Town of Cary. Deposition taken in Discovery Process |
Jun 24, 2011 | |
NC-CAT | Deposition of Laura Cove, P.E.Cary's witness. Associate Director of Engineering, Town of Cary. Deposition taken in Discovery Process |
Jun 24, 2011 | |
NC-CAU | Deposition of William BillingsCary's witness. Traffic Operations Coordinator, Town of Cary. Deposition taken in Discovery Process |
Jun 24, 2011 | |
NC-CAV | Cary's Motion to Dismiss |
May 9, 2011 | |
NC-CAW |
Spencer's Confession: Punish the Driver for Cary's Engineering MistakesCary Caught in Act of Lengthening YellowSpencer's Statement After Being CaughtConfession: Nov 30, 2009: Right after getting my red-light camera ticket, I notified the Towne of Cary of the math mistake. Cary's traffic engineer confers with the DOT and both admit the mistake. But Spencer and the DOT conceal the mistake and make me "deal with it." Caught in the Act: March 17, 2010: My friends notify me that a cherry-picker truck just modified the traffic signal. I measure the yellow. It is now 0.5 seconds longer. Now the yellow is the length required by the NCDOT standard. (I would not have received a ticket. I ran the red by 0.3 seconds.) Now that I know that Cary tried to pull a fast one, Spencer needs to confer with his employer, the Towne of Cary, to give me an "appropriate response." Statement After Being Caught: April 21, 2010: Spencer tells me, "Standards change over time." They did not change this time. A lie. This is what spurred me to sue the Town of Cary. |
Nov 30, 2009 Mar 17, 2009 Apr 21, 2010 |
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NC-CAX | Cary Knows That Decreasing Yellow Light Durations Increases Red Light Cameras Violations. Cary and the NCDOT Shorten the Yellows Anyway, p. 13in February 2006, Dick Moore, Cary's Traffic Systems Manager, raised the issue to the NCDOT that Cary does want to decrease the yellow light durations to 3.0 seconds because that increases the number of red light camera violations and creates a safety hazard. But Cary does it anyway. As early as January 13, 2006 (p.11), Cary is voicing concerns over lowering yellow light durations. |
Nov 27, 2012 | |
NC-CAY | Original Complaint |
Dec 22, 2010 | |
NC-CAZ | Consent Agreement - No appeal, No costs |
Sep 1, 2013 | |
NC-CBA | NB Kildaire Farms at Cary Parkway IntroThe next several exhibits are movies showing the speed of cars entering the left turn bay. The speed limit on these roads is 45 mph. Cary and the NCDOT assert that all cars enter the left turn bay going 22.9 mph or less which Cary and NCDOT use to justify setting the yellow light to 3.0 seconds--the duration for a 22.9 approach speed. Therefore anybody traveling down the left turn bay faster than 22.9 mph will be faced with a type 1 dilemma zone. If the driver is in it when the light turns yellow, Cary will force that driver to run a red light. The speeds of unimpeded left turn drivers in the Kildaire Farm Rd. videos: 34, 32, 35, 39, 35, 43, 37, 36 mph. |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBB | NB Kildaire Farms at Cary Parkway Part 13 examples. First at 00:29 |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBC | NB Kildaire Farms at Cary Parkway Part 21 example at beginning |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBD | NB Kildaire Farms at Cary Parkway Part 31 example at beginning |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBE | NB Kildaire Farms at Cary Parkway Part 44 good examples starting at 00:51 |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBF | NB Kildaire Farms at Cary Parkway Part 51 great example starting at 04:40. A 36 mph driver pulling in the left turn bay a few feet before the stop bar. |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBG | SB Walnut Street at Meeting Place Intro |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBH | SB Walnut Street at Meeting PlaceThe speeds of unimpeded left turn drivers in the Walnut and Meeting Place videos: 25, 31, 38, 36, 39, 32 mph. At 4:50 there are good examples of unimpeded motorists. At 7:45 there is a bicyclist. |
Nov 7, 2012 | |
NC-CBI | NCHRP Report 731 - Guidelines for Timing Yellow and All-Red Intervals at Signalized IntersectionsOn page 41 (Table 21) and page 58, the report tells traffic engineers to plug speed limit - 5 mph into "v" for left-turn yellows in the yellow change interval formula. NCHRP measures "v" at the critical distance. The authors of this paper got this aspect of the formula correct. This aspect in itself nullifies the North Carolina DOT practice of using the stop bar speed (23 mph) for "v". Three authors of this report are the same as the ones who criticized my paper, Derivation of the Yellow Light Equation. These authors plus the another author, Richard Retting, still misunderstand the use of the formula. The formula does not apply to any situation which requires a driver to decelerate before entering the section such as turning drivers. For turning drivers, the formula always cuts short the yellow duration by up to 80%. It is of no surprise that Richard Retting approves this paper. Retting is the "father of the red light camera in America."
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Nov 2, 2010 | |
NC-CBJ | Intersection of Cary Towne Blvd at Maynard, Old Speed Signs on Eastbound Cary Towne Blvd - After Maynard Rd, After Convention |
Jan 28, 2010 | |
NC-CBK | New Speed Signs on Eastbound Cary Towne Blvd After Maynard Rd |
Oct 5, 2012 | |
NC-CBL | 1991 Cary Town Blvd Signal Plan, 2009 Cary Towne Blvd Signal Plan |
Sep 30, 2009 | |
NC-CBM | NCDOT Says Cary Towne Blvd is 45 mph Since Aug 1, 1984By affirmation of Lisa Avery, NCDOT Traffic Safety Project Engineer, Highway Traffic Ordinance Package 84-72, effective Aug 1, 1984, makes Cary Town Blvd a 45 mph road. |
May 19, 2011 | |
NC-CBN | Mike Bajorek LetterMike Bajorek is the Assistant Town Manager for Cary. Bajorek is the first Town of Cary employee to admit that Cary Town Blvd is a 45 mph road. |
Nov 24, 2009 | |
NC-CBO | Lori Millette's CitationMs. Millette represents all turning drivers who paid the red light camera fine. Millette represents about 80,000 drivers. The Town of Cary assumes all turning drivers approaching the intersection approach at no greater than 22.9 mph from 294 feet back from the stop bar. Using that assumption Cary sets the yellow duration to 3.0 seconds. 3.0 seconds is for a 22.9 mph car. Nobody goes that slow that far back. Cary entraps them all. |
May 7, 2010 | |
NC-CBP | Brian Ceccarelli's CitationCeccarelli runs the red light by 0.38 seconds. Literally the blink of an eye. The yellow duration at the intersection is at least 0.5 seconds short of North Carolina's legal requirement. The Town of Cary illegally punished over 8559 drivers just at this one intersection. Though the Town of Cary's traffic engineer admits the error and admits that it has been going on since 1991 (read Spencer's Confession above), Cary still denies it in court. |
Nov 9, 2009 | |
NC-CBQ | Photo of Ceccarelli's CarThe speed limit in the photo says 45 mph. Cary maintains that the speed limit was 35 mph in order to justify Cary's short yellow light duration. |
Nov 9, 2009 |
North Carolina and City Laws
NC-LA | Cary Town Charter 2011. Pages 18, 19 |
Mar 28, 2011 | |
NC-LB | Cary Town Charter 2009. Pages 22, 23 |
Apr 4, 2011 | |
NC-LC | Cary Town Code Sec 34, 2011. Pages 39, 40, 41 |
Mar 4, 2011 | |
NC-LD | Cary Town Code Sec 34, 2010. Pages 39, 40, 41 |
Nov 11, 2010 | |
NC-LE | Fayetteville HB-1151 |
Aug 14, 2014 | |
NC-LF | Greenville HB-1126, Session Law 2016-64 |
Jun 12, 2017 | |
NC-LG | Greenville Ordinance Article X |
Jun 12, 2017 | |
NC-LH | Knightdale Code, Sec 74, 2012 |
Aug 16, 2012 | |
NC-LI | Raleigh Ordinances, Sec 11, 2011. Pages 21, 22 |
Aug 24, 2011 | |
NC-LJ | Wilmington Ordinance. Sec 5-46 |
Mar 15, 2022 | |
NC-LK | North Carolina Red Light Camera Laws |
Aug 20, 2014 | |
NC-LL | North Carolina Administrative Code - Engineers - Chapter 21 |
June 2, 2017 | |
NC-LM | North Carolina Constitution Article IXSec. 7: Clear proceeds . . . shall belong to and remain in the several counties, and shall be faithfully appropriated and used exclusively for maintaining free public schools. |
Feb 1, 2012 | |
NC-LN | North Carolina General Statute 115C-43790% of gross penal fines must go to the schools. |
Feb 1, 2012 | |
NC-LO | North Carolina Professional Engineers Statute, 89C |
Feb 11, 2018 | |
NC-LP | North Carolina Professional Engineers Rules of Conduct |
Sep 16, 2014 | |
NC-LQ | North Carolina Professional Engineers Education RequirementThe education is either an ABET curriculum or a science curriculum. |
Nov 22, 2022 | |
NC-LR | ABET Engineering Education CurriculumThe curriculum requires calculus-based physics. |
Nov 22, 2022 | |
NC-LS | North Carolina Administrative Procedure Act |
Feb 11, 2018 | |
NC-LT | North Carolina and Federal Entrapment Laws |
Oct 19, 2012 | |
NC-LU | North Carolina DMV Handbook |
Oct 19, 2012 | |
NC-LV | North Carolina Commercial Drivers License Manual, 2014The NCDOT declares that the minimum perception/reaction time for the average aware driver facing a hazard is 2.5 seconds (p 2-15) and the minimum air-brake lag time is at least 0.5 seconds (p. 5-9). |
Nov 22, 2014 | |
NC-LW | North Carolina School Bus Drivers Handbook |
Nov 22, 2014 | |
NC-LX | Setoff Debt Collection Act--NCGS 105A |
Oct 25, 2013 |
You are not Driver or Received Citation After 90 Days. Do not Pay. Do not Identify Driver.
NC-OA | Affidavit of Non-Responsibility for Raleigh |
Oct 24, 2012 | |
NC-OB | Affidavit of Did-Not-Receive-Notice in 90 Days from Wilmington |
Mar 15, 2022 | |
NC-OC | Affidavit of Non-Responsibility for Fayetteville |
Feb 11, 2018 | |
NC-OD | Affidavit of Did-Not-Receive Notice in 90 Days from Greenville |
Feb 11, 2018 |