More traffic lights in Renton will soon have vehicle detection technology to help alleviate traffic jams at busy intersections.

At its Nov. 10 meeting, the Renton City Council approved implementing adaptive signal control at seven more traffic signals in the city. This will expand the city’s Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique system, or SCOOT, to 34 adaptive signal control intersections.

The city will be paying $123,200 to Western Systems and $133,683.60 to SWANCO for the equipment and installation to convert signals that previously worked on prescheduled time periods and do not change with traffic conditions.

The purchase will add the new equipment to intersections on NE Third Street from Monterey Avenue NE to Sunset Boulevard, on Sunset Boulevard from NE Third Street to I-405 s

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