Traffic Center Will Be Explored
The Board of Supervisors decided this week to hire a consultant to study the feasibility of building a traffic operations center in the South County.
Residents and government leaders have pushed for a center, which they say would help improve traffic flow by allowing officials to synchronize traffic lights and respond better to traffic jams and accidents.
County traffic officials have said such a facility would help centralize traffic flow in the South County region, which suffers from having relatively few north-south routes that run parallel to the San Diego Freeway.
The county is in the process of extending Antonio Parkway from Mission Viejo through the planned Ladera community and into San Juan Capistrano. The road is expected to improve South County traffic flow.
If a traffic center is built, it could work in concert with traffic operations facilities in Irvine, Santa Ana and Anaheim.
The $97,000 contract was awarded to Kimley-Horn and Associates. The board’s vote was unanimous.
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