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Most motorists probably spend little time pondering how Saskatoon’s traffic light system works.

Angela Gardiner, the city’s director of transportation, said the latest technical innovation will likely also likely fail to catch drivers’ attention.

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However, the move to a single-camera detection system will mean less maintenance, Gardiner said Thursday.

City council’s transportation committee will vote Tuesday on whether to pay about $107,000 to introduce a new system to detect vehicles at intersections with traffic lights.

“A driver will not notice a difference with this system,” Gardiner said. “We have a number of different ways of detecting vehicles.”

Saskatoon’s roadway network includes 275 intersections with traffic lights. Most have some sort of system for detecting vehicles so the lights at busy intersections can change to accommodate them and traffic can flow more efficiently.