EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Online traffic monitoring of Interstate 5 through Western Washington is about to improve.
A five-mile stretch between Everett and Marysville has always been a blind spot because there are no car-counting sensors or traffic cameras in that stretch of road.
The state Department of Transportation tells The Daily Herald that is changing soon.
State crews plan to install traffic-counting loops in the road and six cameras on the shoulder. The state’s cameras are just for traffic monitoring, not to enforce traffic laws.
The fiber-optic lines for the new cameras also will allow the state to activate 12 other cameras already installed farther north.
