SAN JOSE, Calif. (KCBS) -- As gas prices continue to soar, traffic engineers in Silicon Valley are trying to reduce time spent idling at red lights.
Traffic flow throughout Silicon Valley is monitored on 12 plasma screens at the Traffic Operations Center, which is housed in a building near the registrar’s office.
”We’ve got a lot of cameras out there. In May of 1998 we had 32 black and white traffic cameras. Now we’ve got 399 on all the expressways,” said Dan Collin the county deputy director of roads and airports. “We are constantly trying to keep abreast of changing traffic conditions, and tweaking the timing plans, which allow for signal coordination on the expressways during the peak traffic movements.”
Collin says this gives drivers more green lights, and less red ones. Drivers on expressways are now encountering 22 percent fewer red lights because they have been retimed to match the flow of traffic.
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KCBS' Mike Colgan reports
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