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Rig fire just off DC beltway makes KYW!

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ixnay

At 7:12a this morning KYW's Sam Clover reported a tractor-trailer fire on I-95 just north of I-495 near Washington. 95 was closed southbound at the Laurel, MD exit.

Only on Thanksgiving Eve would KY' report on a major traffic mishap in a major city over 100 miles away... IYKWIM.

Happy Thanksgiving. Pray that the driver is alright.

ixnay
 
Well considering 95 will be closed and the general Washington area snarled for several hours because of this, and considering that lots of Philadelphians are probably heading that way, it makes a lot of sense. Better to know now so you can plan ahead.

> At 7:12a this morning KYW's Sam Clover reported a
> tractor-trailer fire on I-95 just north of I-495 near
> Washington. 95 was closed southbound at the Laurel, MD
> exit.
>
> Only on Thanksgiving Eve would KY' report on a major traffic
> mishap in a major city over 100 miles away... IYKWIM.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving. Pray that the driver is alright.
>
> ixnay
>
 
> Well considering 95 will be closed and the general
> Washington area snarled for several hours because of this,
> and considering that lots of Philadelphians are probably
> heading that way, it makes a lot of sense. Better to know
> now so you can plan ahead.
>
> > At 7:12a this morning KYW's Sam Clover reported a
> > tractor-trailer fire on I-95 just north of I-495 near
> > Washington. 95 was closed southbound at the Laurel, MD
> > exit.
> >
> > Only on Thanksgiving Eve would KY' report on a major
> traffic
> > mishap in a major city over 100 miles away... IYKWIM.
> >
> > Happy Thanksgiving. Pray that the driver is alright.
> >
> > ixnay
> >

Yes. Good thinking, Sam! Folks heading south thank you.

ixnay
>
 
> At 7:12a this morning KYW's Sam Clover reported a
> tractor-trailer fire on I-95 just north of I-495 near
> Washington. 95 was closed southbound at the Laurel, MD
> exit.
>
> Only on Thanksgiving Eve would KY' report on a major traffic
> mishap in a major city over 100 miles away... IYKWIM.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving. Pray that the driver is alright.
>
> ixnay
>
NJ101.5 reported it this morning too....<P ID="signature">______________

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ABC Affiliate Channel 7 Eyewitness News in NYC also covered this incident during their 5-7am Newscast. It's one of those things that has a domino effect on several surrounding areas. Good insight from one of the busiest professions this time of year... Traffic reporting!.

Happy Turkey Day!
 
For an all-news station like Philadelphia's KYW-1060, this was a "no-brainer". And even if it had not happened on a major travel day, I think it still would have been reported on the air. It was news.

On the other hand, on this particular day, the accident had the potential to back-up I-95 southbound all the way back to Boston and I-95 northbound all the way to South Carolina when one combines this accident, the normal local commutter traffic in major cities along the I-95 corridor, and the long-distance driving for the Thanksgiving holiday.
 
> For an all-news station like Philadelphia's KYW-1060, this
> was a "no-brainer". And even if it had not happened on a
> major travel day, I think it still would have been reported
> on the air. It was news.
>
> On the other hand, on this particular day, the accident had
> the potential to back-up I-95 southbound all the way back to
> Boston and I-95 northbound all the way to South Carolina
> when one combines this accident, the normal local commutter
> traffic in major cities along the I-95 corridor, and the
> long-distance driving for the Thanksgiving holiday.
>
That would be near impossible.

Route 1 goes parallel to 95, so it would be possible to bypass the jam by going on Route 1.<P ID="signature">______________
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WILM newsradio in Wilmington also reported the tractor-trailer fire on I 95 near Washington this morning. Normally, their traffic coverage will include backups from the Philly area, obviously the Wilmington area and points south in Delaware, and south to include Baltimore on the interstate systems and tunnel, etc.

With this being the busiest travel day of the year, it made sense for stations in Wilmington, Philly, NYC, etc to report the fire as anyone heading South would be affected. Those stations should have mentioned is that US 1 and also US 301 could be used as alternate routes that would get you below Washington. But my guess is both those routes were jammed as people probably flooded those roads trying to get around the fire and the related back up on I-95 in DC.

> At 7:12a this morning KYW's Sam Clover reported a
> tractor-trailer fire on I-95 just north of I-495 near
> Washington. 95 was closed southbound at the Laurel, MD
> exit.
>
> Only on Thanksgiving Eve would KY' report on a major traffic
> mishap in a major city over 100 miles away... IYKWIM.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving. Pray that the driver is alright.
>
> ixnay
>
 
> For an all-news station like Philadelphia's KYW-1060, this
> was a "no-brainer". And even if it had not happened on a
> major travel day, I think it still would have been reported
> on the air. It was news.
>

I agree, but the fact remains that this is the first time I've ever heard an out- of-general Philadelphia/SE PA/S Jersey/Northern DE area traffic problem make KYW's "traffic and transit on the 2's" (at x:02, x:12, x:22, x:32, x:42, and x:52) rather than a regular news segment, where such a story would normally be reported. Although one time KYW's T&Tot2's did some problem on 95 in Cecil County, MD, the closet part of MD to Philadelphia.

ixnay
 
Ix, you have not paying attention. Off the top of my head, I've heard them include closures of the Baltimore I-95 tunnel, closure of I-95 North of Baltimore, closure of I-95 in Connecticut, and (several times) shut downs on the NJ Turnpike in North Jersey in the traffic reports.

Metro Networks' Shadow Traffic does the traffic - not KYW. Metro also does traffic for NJ 101.5 and most every other radio station in the Philly and New York markets. So if one does an out of area item, they all do it. Metro Networks also owns and operates Traffax, which feeds traffic to a few small stations in Delmarva and Central PA.

Time for traffic reports is fixed. And if not a lot is happening locally, they still have to fill the time. They can talk about some really big problem out of area (but still relevant) or they can do on-going construction on secondary roads in the suburbs (where the construction goes on for months at a time).

Whether an out of area item is included in a traffic report depends on how big a deal it is. Whether it affects a major route to or from Philly (like I-95 as opposed to I-78). What else is happening locally. And, of course, Metro's judgement of what is important to people.

Out of area items don't make the traffic report every day, but it does happen.
 
> Ix, you have not paying attention. Off the top of my head,
> I've heard them include closures of the Baltimore I-95
> tunnel, closure of I-95 North of Baltimore, closure of I-95
> in Connecticut, and (several times) shut downs on the NJ
> Turnpike in North Jersey in the traffic reports.
>
[snip]
> Out of area items don't make the traffic report every day,
> but it does happen.
>

Well, it's the still first time that I, ixnay, heard a Washington traffic tieup on KYW. On the PA Turnpike around Morgantown, yes. Washington, not until yesterday. Then again, I don't listen to 1060 24/7, even when sound asleep. :) I should listen to it more often, but I don't think I can get it in my Newark area office (I'm nowhere near a window). As for Baltimore area traffic problems, yes, I've heard them on WILM, WDEL and, I think, WJBR, but Wilmington is 30 miles closer to Baltimore than is Philly. As for NJ 101.1, that would make sense because Trenton is 30 miles closer to NYC than is Philly and also on the same heavily trafficked corridor.

ixnay
 
Around 1993 on KOMA in OKC during the evening and overnight hours, they would play a truckers' traffic report once or twice an hour. It was from a network.

I am a New Yorker, and I was amused to hear on KOMA about icing conditions on the Verranzano Bridge which was slowing traffic.


> Ix, you have not paying attention. Off the top of my head,
> I've heard them include closures of the Baltimore I-95
> tunnel, closure of I-95 North of Baltimore, closure of I-95
> in Connecticut, and (several times) shut downs on the NJ
> Turnpike in North Jersey in the traffic reports.
>
> Metro Networks' Shadow Traffic does the traffic - not KYW.
> Metro also does traffic for NJ 101.5 and most every other
> radio station in the Philly and New York markets. So if one
> does an out of area item, they all do it. Metro Networks
> also owns and operates Traffax, which feeds traffic to a few
> small stations in Delmarva and Central PA.
>
> Time for traffic reports is fixed. And if not a lot is
> happening locally, they still have to fill the time. They
> can talk about some really big problem out of area (but
> still relevant) or they can do on-going construction on
> secondary roads in the suburbs (where the construction goes
> on for months at a time).
>
> Whether an out of area item is included in a traffic report
> depends on how big a deal it is. Whether it affects a major
> route to or from Philly (like I-95 as opposed to I-78).
> What else is happening locally. And, of course, Metro's
> judgement of what is important to people.
>
> Out of area items don't make the traffic report every day,
> but it does happen.
>
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Just because you haven't heard it, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
Now that you've posted on this board and on the Coast to Coast board, maybe enough people have responded with examples to convince you that reporting out of area but relevant traffic incidents is not unheard of.
And you can get KYW (including traffic reports) via online audio stream in your Newark (I assume that's Newark, DE) office.
NJ 101.5 reported on the same I-95 Washington incident and they are 30 miles further away (but Metro is still Metro).



>
> Well, it's the still first time that I, ixnay, heard a
> Washington traffic tieup on KYW. On the PA Turnpike around
> Morgantown, yes. Washington, not until yesterday. Then
> again, I don't listen to 1060 24/7, even when sound asleep.
> :) I should listen to it more often, but I don't think I
> can get it in my Newark area office (I'm nowhere near a
> window). As for Baltimore area traffic problems, yes, I've
> heard them on WILM, WDEL and, I think, WJBR, but Wilmington
> is 30 miles closer to Baltimore than is Philly. As for NJ
> 101.1, that would make sense because Trenton is 30 miles
> closer to NYC than is Philly and also on the same heavily
> trafficked corridor.
>
> ixnay
>
 
> Just because you haven't heard it, doesn't mean it hasn't
> happened.

True

> Now that you've posted on this board and on the Coast to
> Coast board, maybe enough people have responded with
> examples to convince you that reporting out of area but
> relevant traffic incidents is not unheard of.

I'm convinced. :)

> And you can get KYW (including traffic reports) via online
> audio stream in your Newark (I assume that's Newark, DE)
> office.

If my boss allowed it. But she mildly reprimanded a coworker for downloading a music station webcast because it gummed up our company database.

> NJ 101.5 reported on the same I-95 Washington incident and
> they are 30 miles further away (but Metro is still Metro).

Thanks Metro, for doing travelers and commuters a public service. And thank you, everybody. Happy Black Friday!

ixnay
 
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