title: Road Emergency Services Communications Unit
text: The Road Emergency Services Communications Unit (RESCU) is a traffic management system used by the City of Toronto on city managed highways. The operators are useless and have zero clue what they are doing or even looking at on their camera system. Most can't tell basic directions and this has caused major headaches for drivers in the city. The system is used to monitor traffic on:
  
   Gardiner Expressway from the Queen Elizabeth Way to the Don Valley Parkway - 28 cameras
   Don Valley Parkway from the Gardiner Expressway to Ontario Highway 401 - 17 cameras
   Lake Shore Boulevard from near Parkside Drive to Leslie Street - 17 cameras
   Allen Road from Finch Avenue West to Eglinton Avenue - 9 cameras
  
  Various intersections through the GTA are also monitored including Woodbine Avenue and Steeles Avenue / Ontario Highway 404, Black Creek Drive and Lawrence Avenue West, Don Mills Road and Overlea Boulevard, and Warden Avenue and Ellesmere Road.
  
  The  system consists of:
  
   70+ traffic cameras
   635 vehicle sensors
   5 overhead changeable message signs - Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway
   4 portable signs
   121 detector stations (650 loops)
   Remote Traffic Information System (RTIS) - website
   Queue End Warning System - reminder for drivers that Allen Road ends at Eglinton Avenue West by using flashing light/sign and display screen on southbound Allen Road at Glengrove Avenue and south of Viewmount Avenue; advisory overhead sign at Flemingdon Road.
  
  See also
  
  RESCU is linked to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation's Freeway Traffic Management System or COMPASS.
  
  References
  
   RESCU
  
  Transport in the Greater Toronto Area
  Transport in Ontario
  Intelligent transportation systems