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In Article <2s7l5b$ejf@clarknet.clark.net>, thonhazz@clark.net (Jonathan
Hazzard) wrote:
>It seems that their
>information is more timely and more thorough.  And what's more, the
>reporters know what it's like to drive the roads on which they report and
>can therfore stress the severity of a delay through the inflection of 
>their voices.  Just yesterday, Friday before Memorial Day weekend, I heard 
>Shari Liquor on WJFK happily breeze through the sentence, "...and a four 
>mile delay at the Bay Bridge."  On WTOP it would have been, "...and a 
>FOUR MILE DELAY at the Bay Bridge..." 
>
    Are we listening to the same station? I have actually developed a
translation for Bob's traffic reports:

        All lanes open  -   Traffic slows to 35-45 mph
        Heavy, All lanes open - Traffic slows to <=30 mph
        Slowdown    -   Bumper to bumper, stop and go in all lanes

    This assumes, of course, that a jam actually exists there. At times
I have heard all of my routes forcast as jammed, picked one at random, and
found no problems. At other times I have picked an alterate because my
primary was forcast jammed only to find the alternate jammed and my friends
who used the supposedly jammed primary at work ahead of me.

    Just a word of warning.

        -- Joe


    
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