Radar19:
Nope. The traffic system on my 5150 has never worked. Only found out about it because I have the traffic option on when using the radio. I just ignored it and carried on my way. The A3 was buggered thanks to a crash earlier in the day and I was too far over to use the A38 and head up to Birmingham and make it back in time.
The traffic stuff is the main reason I use my 5150. 99% of my runs are to places I’ve been loads of times before, so I really don’t need it to tell me how to get there.
Roymondo:
Radar19:
Nope. The traffic system on my 5150 has never worked. Only found out about it because I have the traffic option on when using the radio. I just ignored it and carried on my way. The A3 was buggered thanks to a crash earlier in the day and I was too far over to use the A38 and head up to Birmingham and make it back in time.
The traffic stuff is the main reason I use my 5150. 99% of my runs are to places I’ve been loads of times before, so I really don’t need it to tell me how to get there.
My traffic system is google and whatever local BBC station is doing the traffic at the time.
Radar19:
My traffic system is google and whatever local BBC station is doing the traffic at the time.
Nor enough detail for me - Little point in knowing there is heavy traffic on a particular road without knowing how heavy it is - i.e. Is it causing 5 minute delays or the full half hour (or more)? Likewise the alternative routes I might be considering - where are the specific pinch points and how long are the delays there?
Roymondo:
Radar19:
My traffic system is google and whatever local BBC station is doing the traffic at the time.
Nor enough detail for me - Little point in knowing there is heavy traffic on a particular road without knowing how heavy it is - i.e. Is it causing 5 minute delays or the full half hour (or more)? Likewise the alternative routes I might be considering - where are the specific pinch points and how long are the delays there?
I agree but thats when BBC travel website and Google maps comes in. I’m looking at getting another Nag-Nav though as this one is losing the plot.
Live traffic on Tomtoms is only free fro 12 months …after that you have to pay for it Radar… thus probably why yours isn’t working…
Radar19:
Roymondo:
Radar19:
My traffic system is google and whatever local BBC station is doing the traffic at the time.
Nor enough detail for me - Little point in knowing there is heavy traffic on a particular road without knowing how heavy it is - i.e. Is it causing 5 minute delays or the full half hour (or more)? Likewise the alternative routes I might be considering - where are the specific pinch points and how long are the delays there?
I agree but thats when BBC travel website and Google maps comes in. I’m looking at getting another Nag-Nav though as this one is losing the plot.
Doesn’t work for me - If I’m already on (say) the M6 heading South towards Birmingham, checking websites etc can’t be done. I want to know what the delay is from J12-J8 and also what the delays are on the alternative routes. They would take longer anyway, so I want to see how long the various alternatives are currently taking, with some idea of whether things are improving, getting worse or remaining stable. At a closer scale, I want to be able to tap on the screen and see whereabouts the delays are in the local area - which roads are badly affected and which ones are still running OK.
rob22888:
Given it hardly makes a ton of money, I don’t see why the government won’t just buy it & make it a public highway. Call it the M6B or something. That’s years of road infrastructure through the Midlands sorted in a stroke and would also ease the A5.
Or, is that just too simple to be feasible?
Rob, that wouldn’t work, cos if you take off the toll, everybody would use it.