Signal synchronization demonstration projects are successful

Euclid Street and Oso Parkway / Pacific Park Drive first to experience traffic improvements

Currently, you can experience traffic light synchronization throughout the entire length of Euclid Street and Oso Parkway / Pacific Park Drive. The two roads served as demonstration projects in preparation for upcoming roadway improvements.

Future roadway enhancements, determined by the Traffic Light Synchronization Master Plan, will utilize the demonstration projects’ findings:

• 10 major Orange County roadways will be synchronized between 2009 and 2011
• Regional traffic signal synchronization will synchronize more than 2,000 signalized intersections when Renewed Measure M funding is available in 2011

Noticeable improvement in traffic flow

Drive time tests and traffic data collected before and after the synchronization of both pilot streets indicate traffic flow improvements exceeding industry standards of 10 to 12 percent reduction in travel time.

Euclid Street improvements

• 20% improvement in travel time
• 41% reduction in stops
  

Oso Parkway / Pacific Park Drive improvements

• 30% improvement in travel time
• 50% reduction in stops

Euclid Street project details

The Euclid Street project extends through La Habra, Fullerton, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Fountain Valley. The project also crosses the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5), the San Diego Freeway (I-405), the Garden Grove Freeway (SR-22) and the Riverside Freeway (SR-91).

• 15 miles
  • 6 cities worked together with OCTA and Caltrans
• 62 traffic signals synchronized
• 50,000 vehicles per day travel through corridor
• $450,000 to implement synchronization
• Synchronized summer 2007

Oso Parkway / Pacific Park Drive project details

The Oso Parkway / Pacific Park Drive corridor runs through Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills, Mission Viejo, the county of Orange and Rancho Santa Margarita. Also crosses the San Diego Freeway (I-5), the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road (SR-73) and the Foothill Toll Road (SR-241).

• 8 miles
• 5 cities and an unincorporated area of Orange County worked together with OCTA and Caltrans
• 34 traffic signals synchronized
• 58,000 vehicles per day travel through corridor
• $250,000 to implement synchronization
• Synchronized fall 2007

For more information, contact Kristin Johnson, Community Relations Specialist, at (714) 560-5386 or kjohnson@octa.net.