WIXY [and others] might like this story about how stations are dumping their traffic reports. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20091127/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_traffic_watchers
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Radio traffic reports disappearing
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My biggest problem with the lack of traffic reports is when I'm on I-77 in the dead of winter and a certain personality has a habit of talking over them.
Those times I may be stuck in traffic with no idea of where the delay may be or where I could get off then get back on. Especially if I have a full bladder and need to pit.
I understand from a conversation I recently had with one of Triv's former producers that he wanted the traffic reports cut down, and I have no problem with that. The problem I do have is when they aren't given when motorists need them most.
Oh, and to be fair, I also got out of the same conversation that Triv "threw nobody under the bus."
Those times I may be stuck in traffic with no idea of where the delay may be or where I could get off then get back on. Especially if I have a full bladder and need to pit.
I understand from a conversation I recently had with one of Triv's former producers that he wanted the traffic reports cut down, and I have no problem with that. The problem I do have is when they aren't given when motorists need them most.
Oh, and to be fair, I also got out of the same conversation that Triv "threw nobody under the bus."
And Ironically, in places like Wheeling, WV, they are adding traffic reports. I remember one time when this weird road in some backwoods part of the county was closed for a month and everyday they reminded people of it. It's funny to hear!
Hey it's West Virginia, they have to keep those moonshiners informed of which back roads are closed.
In 1992, I took a trip to NYC, down to North Carolina, over to Tennessee and then back up through Kentucky back to Ohio and I can remember stations doing traffic reports even going through some of the smaller burgs of the states ["Highway patrol requesting all drivers to avoid Jimmy Bob-Beam road due to several tipped over cows, they expect the road will be closed for the next two hours].
1996, trip from Ohio to Florida, same thing although it seemed like some of the larger stations had dropped traffic reports except during morning and afternoon hours. I got caught in two massive traffic jams, one in Tennessee [Tennessee Volunteers football traffic], the other on the way back from Florida [stop & go traffic all the way from Tampa Bay to Gainesville [Florida Gator football traffic]. I don't think there was a single person left in Hillsborough or Pinellas counties, they were all heading north. Dialed around a few stations in both states, looking to see if there was a way around the mess, not one single station had ANY traffic reports advising of the problems.
Last year, driving to Tennessee, not one station all along the drive had ANY traffic reports at all. Of course, hard to do traffic reports when no one is at the station, sounded like most of the ones were satellite fed formats except for the larger cities.
In 1992, I took a trip to NYC, down to North Carolina, over to Tennessee and then back up through Kentucky back to Ohio and I can remember stations doing traffic reports even going through some of the smaller burgs of the states ["Highway patrol requesting all drivers to avoid Jimmy Bob-Beam road due to several tipped over cows, they expect the road will be closed for the next two hours].
1996, trip from Ohio to Florida, same thing although it seemed like some of the larger stations had dropped traffic reports except during morning and afternoon hours. I got caught in two massive traffic jams, one in Tennessee [Tennessee Volunteers football traffic], the other on the way back from Florida [stop & go traffic all the way from Tampa Bay to Gainesville [Florida Gator football traffic]. I don't think there was a single person left in Hillsborough or Pinellas counties, they were all heading north. Dialed around a few stations in both states, looking to see if there was a way around the mess, not one single station had ANY traffic reports advising of the problems.
Last year, driving to Tennessee, not one station all along the drive had ANY traffic reports at all. Of course, hard to do traffic reports when no one is at the station, sounded like most of the ones were satellite fed formats except for the larger cities.
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