Highway 49 Rehabilitation Project In Auburn Delayed As Malfunctioning Traffic Sensors Cause Headache For Drivers

AUBURN (CBS13) — A Highway 49 rehabilitation task successful Auburn is astir done, but it’s missing 1 past portion of the puzzle. After paving, updating drainage and adding sidewalks, crews person deed a roadblock.

Traffic sensor cameras meant to power the travel of postulation are presently inactive, frustrating drivers.

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“It gives maine a batch of bully overtime to beryllium astatine these lights for 5-10 minutes astatine a time,” said Kaycee June, who works arsenic a transportation work driver.

Her occupation is to get the merchandise to the lawsuit connected time.

“I person clip commits. I’ll deliberation I person it successful my caput it volition instrumentality 15 minutes. Try 35,” said June. “It’s ace frustrating.”

Caltrans spokesperson Raquel Borrayo said, “We besides upgraded postulation signals to newer standards and installed a postulation camera sensor system.”

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Right now, that sensor strategy isn’t working, which typically would admit vehicles stuck astatine a crook awesome oregon reddish light, past and alteration to heighten the travel of traffic.

So what’s the problem? Caltrans said there’s a paper that sits wrong these cabinets that activates the camera sensors, but the voltage wrong the cabinets is excessively precocious and it’s breaking the cards.

“In bid to forestall them from being wholly fried and not being capable to enactment astatine all, we benignant of took a pause, a measurement backmost and we’re trying to fig retired what the voltage contented is,” Borrayo said.

The postulation lights bash work, but they’re successful operation mode, which means the lights alteration astatine an adjacent complaint betwixt reddish yellowish and greenish alternatively of changing based connected traffic.

“You could beryllium letting shade cars spell and there’s a enactment of 200 radical here. It makes nary sense,” June said. “They’ve been moving connected this for truthful long.”

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There isn’t a timeline for erstwhile this contented volition beryllium fixed. In the meantime, Caltrans asks for patience and for drivers to travel the rules of the roadworthy careless of however frustrating it whitethorn get.

CBS13 Staff