Re: Travel Updates on the Radio

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From: joe gregor
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 18:39

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In Article <2rtu3i$909@search01.news.aol.com>, cathy47@aol.com (Cathy47) wrote:
>I will be driving from Howard County to northern Virginia on a daily
>basis.  Could I have some suggestions on which radio stations (AM or
>FM) to listen to for traffic reports during rush hours?  Are they
>ones that are better than others?

    Don't waste your time listening to WTOP (AM 1500). After 4 years of
commuting from Columbia, MD to the Naval Research Lab in southern DC I gave
up on their "traffic every 10 minutes" reports. They usually ignore traffic
coming in from the northeast in preference to most other directions. When
they do report, they are as often as not too late or just plain wrong. With
a 50% accuracy rate you might as well just guess and listen to some music
rather than 100 advertising spots and the occasional useless traffic report.

        -- Joe
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