{"id":358077,"date":"2026-07-02T01:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:53:49","slug":"plano-city-council-approves-8-5m-for-traffic-light-vehicle-detection-upgrades-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358077\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano City Council approves $8.5M for traffic light vehicle detection upgrades | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The specifics<\/p>\n<p>Public Works Community Investment Program Manager Drew Zaeske said the new system will help the city\u2019s engineering and police departments monitor real-time traffic conditions and construction impacts during emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The new intersections will provide full visibility of the four sides of an intersection, according to the city\u2019s engineering department, and provide the following expansions:<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle and pedestrian countsTraffic signal performance metricsFine-tuned signal timingCitywide signal coordinationZaeske said installation will likely start this summer and take 15 months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Funds for the upgrades come from the city\u2019s 2025-26 Street Improvement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/185\/Construction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Community Investment Program<\/a>, per city documents. The funds were collected mostly from the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/2373\/Prop-A---Traffic-Improvements\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021 bond<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The specifics Public Works Community Investment Program Manager Drew Zaeske said the new system will help the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19044,160,18650,162,161,102879],"class_list":["post-358077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-of-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-city-council","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}