Federal grants may result in cleaner air and better traffic flow in Davenport. Tonight the city council will consider spending money to coordinate the traffic signals along some major corridors, and set up a "traffic operations center."
Traffic Engineer, Gary Statz, says federal money will pay 80 per cent of the cost of building fiber optic cables to connect traffic signals at the eastern end of Kimberly Road with the rest of the intersections on Kimberly, and 53rd Street from Pine to Elmore Avenue.
He says the traffic operations center would not be like what you see on television, with a hundred screens and lots of operators. Davenport's would be several screens he could call up on a laptop.
The total cost will be 850,000 dollars, but Davenport would just have to pay 20 per cent.
The city has already approved similar grant for coordinating signals along Locust Street.
