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Apps that report real-time traffic conditions

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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I like the idea a lot, but in my experience they tend not to be very accurate, which is disappointing.

Oddly enough, the most reliable one I've seen so far is ODOT's official website, which I suppose makes sense since they have access to traffic cameras, realtime signal data, and a lot of other stuff that even companies like Google don't really have, especially in a place like Ohio.
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  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    ODOT sounds like it's doing things as a public-sector service provider that I really wish would be provided as public services rather than as advertising-based private-sector services that the internet really likes to do due to lack of funding sources.

    (Also a general "fuck you" to minarchist types who want government to disappear.)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I recently had the privilege of visiting ODOT's headquarters in Columbus. They actually have a massive room with employees watching traffic cameras from all around the state 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to update traffic alerts on the website and on electronic variable message signs on the highways.

    It's really cool...each workstation has like 9 monitors and each of those is divided into images from several different cameras.
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