PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Leaders in Pinellas County a short while ago voted to transfer forward on an $11 million challenge to increase cutting-edge technology to two key roadways in Pinellas County.

Before long, as you are driving together US-19 or State Street 60, sensors alongside the roadway will be equipped to converse details to your smartphone employing Bluetooth.

An application you can expect to be equipped to download to your phone will be ready to inform you to crash info in genuine-time, as effectively as convey to you how several far more seconds right until the targeted visitors light you’re waiting around at turns environmentally friendly.

Tom Washburn in Pinellas County’s Transportation Office states it could considerably enhance security on our more and more congested roadways as perfectly.

“If a pedestrian methods off a curb they’ll get an alert in their car or truck and likewise if a pedestrian commences to cross and there’s a car approaching, and it doesn’t surface it’s slowing down it’ll give a information to the pedestrian,” Washburn explained.

To make the technological innovation get the job done, engineers will have to set up about 100 sensors together area roadways. It’s a process they strategy to start in early 2022.

Pinellas County is obtaining a $4.6 million federal US Section of Transportation grant for the challenge, and county leaders will pitch in yet another $6.3 million to get it up and running.

It’s an expense they hope will make drivers’ commutes a great deal smoother.

The Sophisticated Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment (ATCMTD) grants are being presented out nationwide to support counties and metropolitan areas make extra linked roadways applying updated technology.