Can you see me now?

Drivers using the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike can answer yes to that question after the Turnpike Authority, which runs both toll roads, added video feeds from 149 traffic cameras to its website. Previously the public could only see video from 14 cameras, said Tom Feeney, authority spokesman.

Jim Simpson, state transportation commissioner and authority chairman, said the added cameras will give drivers more real time traffic information.

“It’s great that we were able to have these online in time for one of the busiest travel weekend of the year,” Simpson said in a press release.

The cameras have been in service and are used by the Traffic Mangement Command center run jointly by the authority, Department of Transportation and State Police, Feeney said. Prior to going live Tuesday, feeds from those cameras couldn’t be viewed by the public.

What made it possible was a public-private partnership with TrafficLand, a traffic camera website which allows drivers to look at highways from New Jersey to London. TrafficLand provided the web hosting and band width at no cost to the authority to allow the camera feeds to be seen at its website at www.state.nj.us/turnpike.

Drivers have a choice of 70 Parkway cameras and 79 on the Turnpike to view through the authority’s website.

Those traffic cameras also can be seen at TrafficLand’s website.

(Source: My Central Jersey)