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Article: Lake County, Ill., Aims to Untangle Traffic.

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By M. Daniel Gibbard, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 15--Lake County has hit the gas on a computerized traffic network designed to get cars moving by giving them more green lights.

The multimillion-dollar project, described by experts as one of the most ambitious of its kind in the nation, seeks eventually to bring together all of the county's 656 intersections with stoplights into a single grid controlled by a central computer.

This would allow officials to respond almost instantly to traffic problems caused by accidents, concerts or parades in a county where polls have shown that traffic is a top concern among ...

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