The Dallas Morning News reports that the $AFEclear program has caught the city’s attention there:
“The Houston situation has spurred further interest and should make it easier to get things accomplished here,” said Mike West, a retired traffic safety official with the Texas Department of Transportation, who also is participating in discussions about revising Dallas’ wrecker ordinance by summer. “If they can do it, why can’t we?”
Fortunately for Dallasites, their officials think a different system might be better for their city:
It isn’t likely that the same program will catch on in Dallas, but city officials, Dallas police and representatives of other agencies already are talking about ways to improve response times.
Interesting. Many people and agencies seem to be working together to solve the problem of response time in Dallas.
Little did we realize having a world-class freeway monitoring system set Houston up for a program like $AFEclear:
Dallas also doesn’t have the equipment to copy the Safe Clear program. Houston relies on a network of traffic cameras on all its highways to spot stalled vehicles or accidents. Officials watching traffic cameras are the ones who dispatch the wreckers and keep tabs on the six-minute window.
In Dallas, cameras cover only 35 percent of highways, Lt. Branton said.
