What: The city's traffic management center, a 2019 bond project mostly funded by outside grants, that monitors over 1,000 signals and over 500 video feeds from three workstations.
Where it stands: Live since April 1, 2026 with about 12 part-time student operators. It has managed three home games and a concert; at the latest game, three corridors cleared in 50 to 90 minutes.
Next: More CCTV cameras (a second phase programmed, a third requested), video detection upgrades, dynamic message signs and corridor retiming; staff will follow up with legal and police on footage retention and access, and members asked for before-and-after data.
Details
Staffing: part-time students (up to 27 hours a week, no benefits) instead of a consultant, using the funds set aside for the consultant. One member urged hiring local residents full time; staff said full-time positions could follow later.
Recording: new CCTV cameras keep footage 72 hours; video detection cameras do not record. Footage has been requested two or three times, mostly by police, and is not released to the public. Members raised surveillance and insurance-access concerns, and storage capacity is an issue.
The system does not adjust signals automatically; operators use cameras and a mapping service and can run preset plans.
Rail crossing delays on Flood Avenue were raised; staff plan message signs and are exploring signal-timing pilots.
Sources
YouTube auto-generated captions of the October 22, 2026 meeting.
Staff presented the center's history, operations, game-day results and next steps; the committee discussed student staffing, 72-hour recording, public access to footage and storage, and asked for comparison data.