[BC] Traffic reports

[FrankGott@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/31/2006 2:01:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
barry at oldradio.com writes:

<< Sitting in front of a computer, reading old traffic reports is not 
 service, IMHO.  The pressure to save money has not resulted in better 
 traffic reporting ... only better "promotion" of the T&WT...... >>

Hence the rationale for traffic cameras.  KQV's traffic reporter is at the 
PennDOT regional office.  The highway agency has an information center, a 
mission control type room with a wall of traffic cameras showing the interstates and 
tunnel interiors.

Our morning drive reporter Jimi Miller (who's actually a Metro Traffic 
employee) has described accidents as they occurred.  Awed listeners have called to 
tell us they heard the play-by-play of the accident occurring before their eyes.

Being in what is branded as the PennDOT Information Center has given the 
traffic reports credibility.  The downside is not seeing surface streets and other 
roadways off of the interstate system.

The TVs have access to the live streams for their morning traffic reports.  
Stills from the cameras are posted on a PennDOT website.

Frank Gottlieb
on the eights