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Cookeville will soon upgrade the city’s traffic lights.
Public Works Director Greg Brown said new monitors are designed to prevent accidents.
“If something happens in the controller where the signal is trying to give greens in opposing directions, Brown said. “The conflict monitor catches that and makes the signal go into a flash mode until you can get that corrected.”
Some 21 monitors will be deployed at a cost of just over $18,500 dollars. Brown said the new monitors will be a huge improvement over the older model.
“These will be fiber compatible,” Brown said. “When we get the fiber connected all to them, if it does go into flash mode, we can reset it from a remote location. It will save the technicians from having to go all the way out to the signal to fix it.”
Brown said conflict monitors are necessary to keep the public safe.
“You have to have them,” Brown said. “Sometimes lightning might do something or the controller might just malfunction. You never know what might happen. The conflict monitor is a separate device from the controller, and it monitors what the controller is doing. As soon as it detects something, it throws that signal in the flash mode.”
The conflict monitors will be purchased from Alabama-based Temple, Incorporated.
