Highway cameras start rolling at week’s end
CAPE BRETON, N.S. (Jan. 6, 2005) — Smile if you want to, but you’re not on camera in Nova Scotia just yet.
The government of Nova Scotia says its planned highway webcams will not go live until the end of the week, the Chronicle-Herald reports. The company contracted to set up the stations is still waiting for supplies.
The weather webcams, which will be accompanied by weather stations and temperature sensors, relay information to a government website (www.gov.ns.ca/tran/cameras/camera.asp) where drivers can download images and get real-time information of road conditions around the province.
The stations will help traffic managers detect ice on the road surface with temperature sensors imbedded in the asphalt. They currently check the temperatures manually.
Four new stations equipped with weather cameras have been built in Cape Breton but are not yet operational. They are located on Highway 105 on top of Kellys Mountain and along Route 4 in East Bay, Irish Cove and Sporting Mountain.
Two cameras are already working in Cape Breton — one at the causeway and the other outside North Sydney on Highway 125.
There are 18 highway webcams on the mainland. The province has partnered with the federal government to set up another 15 webcam/weather stations on the Trans-Canada Highway within the province.
— from the Chronicle-Herald
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