WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — City engineers are working to improve the flow of traffic around State Street in West Lafayette. The plan is to do this within the next two months.

During the State Street Redevelopment Project around 20 new street signals went up. Two of those were recently put up near Chauncey Avenue.

Most of the signals are running and will soon go through a fiber interconnect system. This allows city engineers the ability to monitor what's going on at intersections. After some evaluation, they can adjust the timing of the signals to help improve traffic flow. West Lafayette Project Engineer Dan Auckley said what's happening with the signals now.

"There's sort of a free pattern because we don't have that interconnect yet, but once we get the fiber interconnect is in place it'll allow it to communicate better," said Auckley. "We can control those timings a little bit better and make things better."

There are two more traffic signals being installed on Stadium Avenue during the final phase of State Street construction. New signals are being installed at Stadium Avenue and Russell Street and Stadium Avenue and Waldron Street. A portion of Stadium Avenue is temporarily closed now for the project.

A computer program was installed in the city's street department to help monitor the traffic lights. Auckley said this program also tells them when the signals aren't working properly.

"You can see it turning red to green," said Auckley. "If this one's red and this one's green ya know, do you need to adjust the timing down here so we a have a green, green, green traffic flow through state street or whether is be US 52 or whether a corridor we have running through the city here."