Arlington County is planning to soon add its 24 traffic cameras to the growing list of ones available for free public viewing online.
If approved by the County Board, real-time feeds from Arlington’s traffic surveillance cameras, which are now available only to emergency personnel, will appear on TrafficLand.com, a site that started in 2001 with feeds from 32 Virginia Department of Transportation traffic cameras.
The site has grown to include information from nearly 6,000 traffic cameras in 60 markets nationwide, including those from VDOT, the District Department of Transportation and Montgomery County.
The addition of Arlington’s cameras would make available live images of key intersections on the county’s main thoroughfares, including Columbia Pike, Glebe Road, Lee Highway, Arlington Boulevard and Wilson Boulevard, officials said.
“The benefits for Arlington residents and commuters include real-time access to current, detailed traffic conditions in the area and greater information with which to make their travel choices,” said Myllisa Kennedy, spokeswoman for the Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, which is coordinating the project.
Feeds from stretches of Interstates 95, 395, 495 and 66 are already available on the site through VDOT’s cameras, which make up some of the more than 400 surveillance cameras in the Washington-Baltimore area available on TrafficLand.
Arlington’s cameras also would be fed to the county’s Web site.
The deal is beneficial because TrafficLand, which has some subscription services but also makes money from online advertisements, will provide the service at no cost to the county, officials said.
The Arlington County Board is scheduled to vote on the proposal Saturday.
