Real-time Traffic
I was about to head to bed tonight when I looked out the window and saw 90/94 Westbound jammed. Jammed so bad that people were exiting off the entrance ramp…which made for a fun time when they turned the wrong way onto a one-way street. But I digress.
So I hopped online to see if I could figure out what was going on. And checked a few traffic sites: CBS Chicago Traffic, Yahoo! Traffic, GCM Travel (an old favorite of mine), and finally, Traffic.com
Guess who had the most up-to-date and accurate report? That’s right, Traffic.com. Out of all the ones I looked at, actually, Traffic.com was the only one that even displayed some sort of delay! Not only that, but it gave very good detail too:
past Ohio St (#50b) - water main break blocking 3 lanes - 3-4 feet of water in roadway, 6 cars, 2 tractor trailors stuck.
Not bad - anytime I travel in the future, I’ll definitely be hitting up Traffic.com. Now back to watching people go the wrong way on the one-way. 
And check it, they’ve even got a Chicago Traffic RSS Feed! Bet that makes Scoble happy… 
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I forgot the URL for this thing and went to your site for it. Thank goodness it uses DHTML with JavaScritp to make the map “active” instead of having to reload the page each time you zoom or move the map.
Is there one to check flight times?
By Mike D.on 02.20.06 6:00 pm
You mean like http://flightview.com/ or http://www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight ??
By Damonon 02.21.06 1:55 am
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