Traffic & Transit

Berlin: Strange Vehicle Is Merely StreetsScan

The town has hired a firm to scan and record all of the town's roads to ascertain street conditions and problems in quality.

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If you see this vehicle on Berlin roads the next few days, it's just working for the town as it scans and monitors the quality of town streets.
If you see this vehicle on Berlin roads the next few days, it's just working for the town as it scans and monitors the quality of town streets. (Courtesy of Town of Berlin)

BERLIN, CT — If you see a funny-looking white vehicled decked out with all sorts of thingamajigs, doohickeys and whatchamacallits, its not some secret government monitoring program.

It's merely the Town of Berlin scanning the town's streets to ensure the general health and welfare of this important municipal service and they hired Streetscan to help.

According to the town's Facebook page, StreetScan's field crew is planning to arrive and begin scanning in Berlin today, July 14.

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"They will scan through the weekend and are expected to finish by Tuesday, July 19," reads the post.

StreetsScan is a Massachusetts-based firm that utilizes "vehicle-mounted sensing technology to assess road conditions in normal traffic flow."

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Its goal is to accumulate data to determine the health of each road and identify road defects like potholes, bumps and cracking, according to a StreetScan flyer posted on social media.

Anyone with questions about the process is asked to call Jim Horbal, deputy director of Berlin's public works department, at 860-828-7069.

For the Town of Berlin Facebook page, click on this link.

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