St. Petersburg, Florida gets high-tech to fix its chronic traffic problem
Skift Take
Message boards and monitoring systems might help reduce collisions and make drivers more aware, but the only way to really fix a traffic problem is to increase infrastructure for public transportation.
About 58,500 vehicles drive daily along State Road 686, one of Pinellas County's most congested east-west routes.
Relief for frustrated motorists could come as soon as early as 2014, when the road will be linked to the county's Intelligent Transportation System, or ITS, which traffic planners say will mean less time idling at red lights and fewer accidents.
County commissioners this week approved a $1.7 million construction project to install five electronic message boards, 18 closed-circuit TV cameras and traffic sensors on the road that is called Roosevelt Boulevard, East Bay Drive and West Bay Drive as
