Post-Gazette: City modernizing traffic controls

About 35 Downtown intersections will be getting modern LED traffic lights and other improvements in a three-year, $3.8 million project, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced Wednesday.

The project also portends a cultural shift. Because the project will increase the city's capacity to control traffic lights remotely, fewer police officers will be needed to operate lights manually during rush hour and big events.

The work will begin next spring with improvements to four intersections -- the Boulevard of the Allies' intersections with Cherry Way, Commonwealth Place and Market and Stanwix streets.

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