Monday, March 25, 2013

More highway cameras planned

By Heather Polischuk, Leader-PostMore highway cameras planned
 A photo taken by a highways camera near Paradise Hill Photograph by: Supplied photo , Sask. Highways and Infrastructure.
When Ron Stricker's son-in-law drove from B.C. to Saskatchewan for work a week ago, the troublesome weather had Stricker on the Internet trying to find out what he could about the highways. Unfortunately, while Stricker can access numerous highway cameras in his province, he was unable to do the same here. "I was thinking maybe I could see some of the highways there and it just seemed ... your province hasn't gone that way yet," he said. Stricker, who lives in Richmond, B.C., also frequently visits his wife's family in the Moose Jaw area. Currently, the province has just four such highway cameras allowing for a real-time picture of road conditions - as opposed to Alberta and British Columbia, for example, where highways seem comparatively littered with them. "I think these cameras are really useful," Stricker said. "You can tell a lot better when you look on a camera."... Read more: here...

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