Date:  Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Contact: Emily Pace, WSDOT Communications, 360-349-4171

OLYMPIA – WSDOT turned on several new traffic cameras in the Olympia area this week, providing Thurston County drivers with new tools to plan their commutes.

Four of the new cameras are on I-5 at Custer Way, Eastside Street, Sleater-Kinney Road and Martin Way. The other three cameras are located on surface streets at the intersections of Union Avenue and Plum Street, Martin Way and Sleater-Kinney, and Martin Way and College Street.

The new cameras are available on WSDOT’s Olympia area traffic flow map: www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/olympia/.

Thurston County e-mail alerts

Motorists who would like to receive e-mail alerts about upcoming maintenance- and construction-related traffic impacts can sign up on WSDOT’s Web site at www.wsdot.wa.gov/. In the upper right-hand corner of the page, click on E-mail updates. Enter your e-mail address then find “Thurston County Traffic News” on the list of available e-mail alert services.

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