The EBR signal synchronization saga Updated 3/6/24.. we made it!

Edited to add this link courtesy of Holmesbr from December of 2015:
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The city-parish hoped back then to have its then-400 traffic signals all synchronized by 2010. In 2004, the city estimated that 75 percent of the city’s traffic lights would be synchronized by 2006. But two years later, traffic engineers reported that only about 250, or half, of the city-parish’s traffic lights had been synchronized.

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July 13, 2020

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“An important part of MOVEBR is a traffic management system that will give us 100-percent connectivity with our traffic signals, allowing us to adjust traffic flow at any time from our Advanced Traffic Management Center,” Mayor Broome said in a press release. “In this digital age, very few cities in the U.S. have fully connected traffic signal systems – I’m proud to say Baton Rouge is leading the way.”

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According to the Mayor, the signal upgrades can reduce travel time by 10-50 percent and accidents by 30-50 percent depending on circumstances. The project is estimated to be fully implemented within two to three years.

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Nov 11, 2021

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BATON ROUGE - Hundreds of traffic lights are in the process of being synchronized, including the major intersections around LSU.

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Once all traffic lights in the parish are connected, the synchronization will officially begin. The timeline on that still has another 18 months to go.

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March 6, 2023

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According to Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome's office, the MOVEBR light synchronization project will be complete by the end of 2023. Work to connect traffic signals along major corridors to an Advanced Traffic Management Center is ongoing, but so far the project has not faced any major road blocks.

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Sept 5, 2023

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While difficulties getting all the needed equipment have slowed the project, the work along the parish’s 17 major traffic corridors should be complete by the time the state transportation department closes one lane in each direction while widening Interstate 10, Transportation Director Fred Raiford says. “We should be ready to go with the corridors in the first quarter of next year,” he says. “That doesn’t mean all the signals in the parish will be ready, but it’ll be very close.”

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If you are an interested citizen in EBR Parish, and you have been following the synchronization saga for the past three plus years, how confident are you that it will be ready before they choke down I 10.
How scary is this:

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Upon completion, all 470 signals will be connected and centrally managed in real time, officials say. Staff will be able to adjust signal timing to account for wrecks, special events, construction and emergency evacuations without having to send a crew to the signals.

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Advocate

Our 20 plus year saga is over. Mayor Broome announced today.
March 6, 2024:

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East Baton Rouge Parish has completed a project to connect all of its traffic lights to a central command center, allowing traffic engineers to manually change lights and help ease traffic, Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced Wednesday.

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I can’t wait to knock off work and head home.