April 08, 2004

Stuck in traffic? For US monkeys, the Dept. of Transportation has put together a doozy of a website. State by state highway information, complete with links to construction info, accident reports, and traffic cams. Good lord, the traffic cams.

States vary widely with the amount of information posted - Hawaii posted links to beach cameras for some reason - but I quickly discovered my ride home from downtown Nashville is littered with web-cams. Pros and cons? Anyone forsee practical uses for this wealth of info?

  • i sold my car. i am car-free. notice, if you will, how close that is to "carefree." traffic cams? BRING 'EM ON! i'm sleeping an extra hour in the morning and walking to work. heh.
  • I've never owned a car. Although my mum lets me drive heres occasionally. Also, Britain is speed and traffic camera insane. We are the most watched people ever, anywhere.
  • Another good one for certain metro areas is Sigalert.com. It is invaluable for the LA area.
  • Make that just southern California :D
  • ya know, I always wanted a comprehensive listing of traffic cameras in the USofA and now I know where to go. I for one welcome our new omnicient traffic overlord!
  • Ok that beach camera link led to this which had a strange power to draw my attention for an extended period of time.
  • Now I have a stronger urge to go to Hawaii, just so I can see that statue in real life...and wave to the camera.
  • dng - Natch, you have the highest population density of any wealthy socialist-ish country. All the famous paranoid literati are from Britain for a reason. Still, you have to admit that America is catching up as quickly as it can...