Sitting on a tour bus in NYC, an ambulance came up behind us in gridlock. The ambulance squeezed by eventually but it must have missed 4 light cycles before getting through the street light to the next block of gridlock. By then, it had long since turned off it’s siren and was just flashing it’s lights. The street was packed and there was simply nowhere for it to go.
I sat watching that Ambulance locked in traffic and thought, “buddy, you are going to die.” LOL!
We have streets blocked with traffic sitting at lights here in Houston but the Ambulance will just go down the wrong side of the street, against the traffic, making the on coming traffic move over and stop. When they get to the intersection, all the traffic will be stopped in all 4 directions they just switch back over to the proper side of the street. It takes a little more time than zipping along past all the cars but it is better than what you witnessed. I can’t believe NY doesn’t do that.