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XM Traffic Service now handling Buffalo

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Western New York will be added to a nationwide satellite traffic information service run by XM Satellite Radio.

XM (NASDAQ: XMSR) announced Monday that it will begin providing 24-hour-a-day traffic reports for the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area sometime during the third quarter. The information will be available on XM NavTraffic, a service for GPS navigation systems.

An infringement on local content or just a good business plan?
 
Traffic?

Western New York will be added to a nationwide satellite traffic information service run by XM Satellite Radio. XM (NASDAQ: XMSR) announced Monday that it will begin providing 24-hour-a-day traffic reports for the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area sometime during the third quarter. The information will be available on XM NavTraffic, a service for GPS navigation systems. An infringement on local content or just a good business plan?
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After driving through Toronto at rush hour a few weeks back, all I can say about Buffalo traffic is "what traffic?"
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Rush hour? How about when they do "Cottage Country Traffic" on the weekends because people are spending hours in line trying to get to/from their "cottage" outside the city?

I can remember spending an hour in a parking lot known as the Don Valley Parkway just trying to get from downtown TO to Ikea on the north side. YIKES!
 
Re: Traffic?

Radknowski said:
After driving through Toronto at rush hour a few weeks back, all I can say about Buffalo traffic is "what traffic?"
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Sure, not as busy as Toronto, but if there's a detour, always nice to know about it.

Buffalo does have construction to report...no?

Accidents happen too...right?
Surely there's something to hint some form of need for traffic reports in Buffalo.
Perhaps not every 10 minutes, but 15 and 45 past the hour or something like that...?
(anything that sticks in the mind as the time to check traffic...)

The oddest thing is that, from what I understand, the traffic in Vancouver is not any worse off Than Toronto, yet there's an all (drive time) traffic station there.
 
I've been stuck in that "Cottage Country" traffic, because a former girlfriend of mine lived north of Toronto (in the suburbs, not all the way up there...though we used to go there). It's bad. There's a reason they do that on Friday afternoons.

As far as the subject goes, just to clarify - the traffic won't end up on the air on XM. They recently added Cleveland as well, but it is just for the computerized-info "NavTraffic" service...not for the radio side.
 
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