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Freeway signs to display travel times
Orange County motorists will soon see the happiness – and the pain – that awaits them.
Freeway signs will tell them how long the drive to key interchanges will take, relying on a system of 5,500 sensors already embedded in lanes and a computer to provide real-time information.

As early as late September, message signs will provide travel times on six signs, with three or so on the Santa Ana (I-5) and San Diego freeways.
A couple of weeks later the program will go countywide with 12 to 20 signs. At most, the information will be five minutes behind the actual traffic flow.

James Pinheiro, a deputy district director for the California Department of Transportation, said the real-time signs are meant to put people at ease and let them take a less congested route.
"If they (drivers) know what to expect, I think it eases their minds a bit," Pinheiro said.
Caltrans officials expect motorists gazing at the travel-time signs to create some
congestio
n at first.
The state agency has 50 message signs in the county for Amber and incident alerts, which will still appear when needed on the travel-time signs. But Caltrans figures using more than 20 travel-time signs would be too distracting.
The sensors have been used for years to let transportation officials and the public, via the Web, tell how fast traffic is.
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