The City of College Station is trying to make traffic flow faster in town. They've implemented a new system to help monitor roads and keep traffic from backing up at major intersections.

The roads are now being monitored by nearly 70 cameras across the city, replacing a nearly 20-year-old system.

"We're able to be more efficient and more responsive to issues out in the field," said City Traffic Engineer Troy Rother. "It also allows us in traffic engineering to look at what's going on and make adjustments to signal timings whenever there is a safety issue."

The new Intelligent Transportation System allows engineers to re-time lights on major roadways.

"We're in the process of re-timing Texas Avenue, and the cameras that we have will actually count cars," said Rother, "so we no longer have to hire a consultant to go out and count the vehicles at the intersection."

The city also put in new yellow flashing arrows to indicate when to yield to on coming traffic.

"The research has shown that it better communicates to drivers that they have to yield on that left turn," said Rother. "When you're sitting at a traffic signal and you're in the left turn lane and you've got a green ball and the other car approaching has a green ball, drivers are expecting they can go, and so we are switching those out for the yellow flashing arrows."

You may not be able to get from one side of the city to another on all greens, but the city hopes a trip like that will be a lot smoother.