Hampshire Twittering Traffic-Jams – SMS alerts – @hants_motorway
January 14th, 2010
4 comments
Something that drives me nuts is every so often there’ll be an accident on the M3 or M27 and the entire surrounding area will be flooded with people trying to avoid the deadlock, only to find they’re on a tiny road with thousands of other people. Yes, I could check the traffic websites each morning, or do some intelligent parsing of traffic RSS feeds, but the first option requires effort before 9am (not going to happen), and the second option is never going to be reliable enough – it’d be too hard to programmatically determine how bad the conditions on the road really are.
