Fargo looks to innovative technology, tried and true methods to improve traffic safety – InForum
Fargo looks to innovative technology, tried and true methods to improve traffic safety – InForum
Publish Date: 2026-06-13 06:03:00
Source Domain: www.inforum.com
FARGO — Ah, spring — when the high-pitched drone and sudden backfire of street racers pierce the nighttime quiet, and unrelenting road construction foils commutes and creates unexpected gridlock in a new area of town seemingly every day.
While most grumble and then game out a plan to navigate the seasonal annoyances, others are working to mitigate and solve them. As Fargo grows, so does the need to stay ahead of changing traffic patterns and driver behavior, leading the city to try creative approaches, like enlisting the help of academics studying and developing new innovations, while continuing to lean on the engineers and beat cops whose everyday jobs are focused on improving safety on Fargo’s roads.
Like many of The Forum’s stories do, this one began as a question from a reader, who wrote asking why a busy north Fargo intersection had what looked like several extra surveillance cameras mounted atop its traffic lights.
Most Fargo drivers are, by now, accustomed to the police department’s Flock cameras, which were approved two years ago and tower atop traffic lights across the city. Flock cameras,
which have stirred controversy and privacy concerns
, leading some jurisdictions to outlaw their use, are used by local law enforcement during investigations and pursuits to track suspect vehicles both in real time and following an incident.
But at the intersection of University Drive and 19th Avenue North, which sits at the crossroads of the Fargodome, the northside McDonald’s, a Casey’s gas station and the North Dakota State College of Science Fargo campus parking lot, the reader noted, cameras, which didn’t look like the average Flock set-up, had recently been added.
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