They’re watching you.

More accurately, the new cameras that Oregon Department of Transportation crews installed over the summer and the last few weeks are keeping an eye on local roads.

The department’s http://www.tripcheck.com Web site is a favorite among travelers.

If you’re headed across Oregon, you can log onto the Internet to look at travel conditions, weather warnings and check out at road conditions thanks to cameras mounted on major highways throughout the state.

Over the summer ODOT set up a camera in Reedsport at the agency’s maintenance yard. There’s now one on the McCullough Memorial Bridge in North Bend and one in Coquille at the intersection of state Highway 42 and 42 South.

More recently, the state installed a camera at Camas Mountain on state Highway 42. On Sunday, it showed a snow-covered road.

The one at Camas Mountain was part of a project, said Galen McGill, a transportation systems manager for ODOT.

“We added a weather station there. It gathers data for our maintenance crews to use,” he said. “It was fairly easy to add a camera to it.”

There’s also a new feature on all the cameras — a time-delayed image of the last picture taken during daylight hours. For four hours after sunset, a link to the last daylight image appears in the pop-up window below the night image. Once four hours have passed, the link goes away.

McGill said he hasn’t had much feedback about the new cameras that show traffic density and local weather, but when a camera quits working, the e-mails start pouring in from folks using the Web site.

“For the most part, people are pretty supportive,” McGill said. “The cameras are pretty popular.”