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Traffic Signal System to be Installed on Route 22

It will be through Bridgewater, Green Brook, Watchung and more.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation is beginning a congestion relief project that will improve traffic on Route 22, from the area of Route 287 in Bridgewater to milepost 50.25 in Mountainside.

This will include stretches of the road in Bridgewater, Bound Brook, Green Brook, North Plainfield, Watchung, Scotch Plains and Westfield.

The project, scheduled to cost $7.77 million, is expected to improve mobility along the corridor with a system that will connects the 18 traffic signals in that area into one Controlled Traffic Signal System, according to a release from the NJDOT.

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This project, the release said, will include the replacement of traffic signal systems at five of the intersections, as well as improvements to seven others.

The project will also include the installation of eight new traffic cameras, two new permanent electronic dynamic message signs and fiber-optic and wireless communication to connect the system.

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Preliminary construction work has been done by Daidone Electric Inc., working on sign installation, field mobilization and directional drilling for underground conduits.

The work, the release said, will require the installation of electronic equipment outside the main travel lines on Route 22, so it will be done during normal business hours with minimal disruption to traffic.

In addition, the release said, all available travel lanes will be maintained, although there will be temporary closures of jughandle ramps with traffic detoured along Route 22.

Those changes, the release said, will be limited to off peak hours.

The project is scheduled to be completed in summer 2014.


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