Plans to ease Hwy 280 traffic congestion are in the works
It's a road many people in our area travel, every day. If you live in Jefferson County or Shelby County chances are your commute, at one point, will take you along Highway 280. If you have driven it, you know just how bad traffic can be.
There are plans to put in an Adaptive Traffic Control System along the busiest stretch of the highway.
The system will help the flow of traffic in the area. It will count the volume of vehicles, allows the traffic signals to communicate to each other and adjust the amount of time that traffic light-share that is green - in areas where the traffic is heavy.
Michael Kaczorowski, with a member of the Metropolitan Planning Organization said, "Because all those signals will be tied together it can sense how much traffic is coming down stream so the signals will be able to talk to each other."
Kaczorowski said the system will cost $2.5 million. Federal funds will account for 80%, with the Alabama Department of Transportation funding the remaining 20 percent.
The bids will go out around May, construction is expected to start in June, and, hopefully that system will be in place by fall.
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