St-Charles Blvd. in the West Island was a perennially clogged mess and promising to get worse.
With no room or budget to expand the roadway, the Kirkland municipality turned to an AI-backed system to speed the flow of traffic at intersections – the first of its kind in Canada, The Gazette's René Bruemmer reports.
The question remains whether the City of Montreal, which has been criticized for failing to implement technologies used elsewhere to smooth traffic flows, intends to follow suit.
