The City of Richmond is purchasing new devices that monitor driving behaviour at intersections, at a cost of $5,000 per device.
The city’s director of transportation, Victor Wei, said the city has already bought two devices and will install them at problematic locations, according to RCMP.
The devices, fixed to a pole, monitor traffic volume, how fast drivers are going, and whether they’re tailing one another too closely.
The data is 95 per cent accurate (more accurate than existing ground-installed devices), said Wei, and can be passed on to police to determine if monitoring and ticketing needs to be done at the intersection. Wei said his department will assess the devices and look at purchasing six more in the near future.
Wei said the devices have been used in at least two other Lower Mainland municipalities.
