stlouie_lipp wrote:Spot on, jim. I know the Regan is I-88 but only because is was named that not too long ago. Then I think it becomes the Eisenhower "at the merge" but I'm not totally sure about that.
Those traffic reports go so fast that unless you know exactly what you need to hear no one can understand. I was going to the Blackhawks game on Tuesday and put on WBBM for a traffic update. After they did one I just had to laugh at myself and ask what I thought I was going to get out of it.
That's the other thing is they talk at the speed of light. It's just jibberish to me.
I did not know 88 was the Reagan. 88 and/or 355 is what I use the most, and I don't know the names of either one of those.
Luckily Waze is now available that should make everything pretty easy to see/understand at the speed of light. Jim, i'd recommend it if you're going to travel anywhere you don't know like the back of your hand.
Arthur Dent wrote:Does Waze do anything that Google Maps traffic reporting doesn't do?
I haven't used google maps in some time now, but waze warns of cops, will redirect around traffic (don't know if google maps does this now or not), warns of construction/stuff in the road/vehicles on the shoulder (which can admittidely be annoying), and allows the user to report conditions/add pictures/etc.
heyzeus wrote:In Houston it's crazier, because the highway system is shaped like a gigantic bicycle wheel with spokes. There are FOUR concentric loop roads. Each highway changes unofficial "name" as it passes through downtown. Thus, Interestate 10 is the "Katy Freeway" if you're west of downtown, but becomes the "Baytown Freeway" the second you're east of downtown.
Thus, a traffic report might sound like:
"Traffic is backed up on the west loop northbound from the katy freeway to the northwest freeway, and on the North Loop eastbound from the North Freeway to the Eastex Freeway south." It's madness.
