Friant and Shepherd Intersection Webcam in Fresno

If keeping an eye on the flow of traffic passing through an intersection gives you a buzz, you’ll find this live feed positively electrifying. If watching vehicles speeding here, there and everywhere isn’t something that gets your adrenaline flowing then you may well find it pretty mundane – or better said – boring. Stay with it for a few minutes, because when an intersection is as busy as the Friant and Shepherd one in Fresno, California, you never quite know what might happen next.

Fresno is a city that’s spread across the Central Valley region of California. While its name is derived from the Spanish name for ash tree, you’ll be hard put to spot any lining the sides of the road here unless they’re hidden behind the exhaust-fume polluted pines. With a resident population of well over half a million, and about as many vehicles on the road, looking at their wilting branches, the trees in this part of Fresno have probably overdosed on carbon dioxide and long forgotten how to cough out oxygen into the atmosphere.

The origin of the intersection’s name has also been long forgotten. And it’s sad to say, most folks passing through here are often in too much of a hurry to obey the lights or even brake when they should. That’s a fact that’s made the Friant and Shepherd intersection in Fresno a major accident blackspot. Why the drivers can’t chill out, this is California after all, is anyone’s guess. But they should because this is a police operated webcam so watch out, the local law force has its beady eye on you.