Those driving along University Street may notice a smoother transition from stoplight to stoplight. The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission announced traffic signals have been synchronized along the stretch of road from I-74 to Glen Avenue. That means if a vehicle approaches a green light and continues to drive the speed limit; it should hit every green light on the busy street.

Maggie Martino is the Planning Program Manager for the commission. She says the goal of the synchronization is to keep air pollution down in the Peoria area.

"If we get too high, then the U.S E.P.A is going to impose sanctions on us. We'd have to use a different fuel blend that might be more expensive, you might have to get your cars inspected which we don't do right now, so there's a number of things like that that would happen if we go over this threshold limit that the E.P.A has set," says Martino.

Martino says reduced vehicle idling at stoplights will save nearly three tons of emissions per year. The cost of implementing the project was 18-thousand dollars.