GOLDEN STATE FREEWAY : Panel OKs Plan to Install Cameras
The California Transportation Commission voted Friday to spend $8.7 million to install 47 closed-circuit television cameras on the Golden State Freeway between downtown Los Angeles and Santa Clarita.
The cameras, to be installed over 35 miles of freeway passing through Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale and Santa Clarita, will be used to provide information on accidents, delays and weather conditions and help speed up response to traffic problems.
A few of the 47 cameras will be installed on smaller sections of adjacent freeways.
The cameras, which will be operating by late 1993, are part of a $280-million upgrade of the downtown Traffic Operations Center, a high-tech command post where Caltrans officials use electronic sensors, closed-circuit television monitors, ramp meter controls, changeable message sign operators and low-power radio transmitters to monitor traffic throughout Southern California’s freeway network.
The $280-million upgrade will increase the number of closed-circuit television cameras on the freeway system from 19 to about 400 on as many miles of freeway and increases the number of changeable message signs from 40 to 100.
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