It’s not often there are any perks to working at DOT, but they are letting us test a new traffic website. It will be available to the public but right now it is at a temporary address:
It allows you to customize your view of traffic and add pictures from your favorite traffic cameras, show text from your favorite overhead message signs, and see what the average speed and travel times along interstates. It’s pretty neat. You set up an account and it remembers your settings just like My Yahoo does with news and stocks.
Eventually the current page will be upgraded to the existing site:
It’s not often there are any perks to having a brother work in the DOT, but this is one. I also don’t worry about him ever getting fired. So there’s two.
This would be relly interesting if i didn’t live in Fl…