In Massachusetts, the folks doing traffic reports on local TV refer to s=
ensors
that they say monitor the traffic flow. The sensors appear to be alu=
minum
poles and wooden telephone poles forty feet high, and have gone up a=
long
side I 93 and Rt. 3 in the past month. They have two (2) solar panels =
and a
small white box, with no TV camera lense, half way up the poles looking d=
own at
a 45=BA angle, facing the roadway! Below this is a junction box at chest =
level.
It's too bad they couldn't just us the existing highway over head sight =
posts.
That are just feet away form them!

It's possable the sensor post my have to be a certain distance apart to =
measure
the traffic flow. Even so, one post could have been a traffic sign and t=
he next
a stand alone post! Also weather towers, in fenced in compounds are set=
up at
interchanges along the highway.
Jim

KD2PM wrote:

Most likely if its in the median of the road, those are temporary cell
towers.

While waiting to get easements and permits to build a new tower or to g=
o on
an existing tower, this is the temp solution to get customers the cover=
age
they need.

Nextel finally got theirs up at the 131 mile marker not too long ago ha=
ving
to go the same route.

"Andy in NJ" SHORECOGS at COMCAST DOT NET wrote in message
...
Has anyone else noticed what appears to be portable cell towers up an=
d
down
the GSP? They are towers on trailors with a small box at the end, may=
be a
generator and most are placed in the center median, at the SP turnaro=
unds.
Are these part of some State Police communications network? Are they =
part
of
a commercial cellular network? Anyone have any idea?

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