Star Tribune Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:28:52 GMT
New traffic technology installed in Burnsville
An inexpensive blue-light system mounted on traffic signals will help spot red-light runners, officials said. For the first time in Minnesota, Burnsville police are using new technology -- an inexpensive blue-light system mounted on traffic signals - to spot red-light runners, who cause most of the serious crashes, officials said Thursday. In February, the "enforcement lights" were mounted on signal poles at two busy Hwy. 13 intersections. The bright blue lights, placed at 90-degree angles on the poles, activate when the signal turns red. It is visible to officers parked nearby but not to approaching traffic. "We're excited about it," Police Chief Bob Hawkins said Thursday. "We'll be able to put it to good use." Typically, two officers would work together to nab red-light violators, with one officer radioing ahead to the other. When an officer works solo, he or she would often have to tail the motorist and run the light as well, Hawkins said. The new method is much safer, he said, for police and motorists.
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