The Afternoon Drive Traffic Reports

[808blogger]

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Both Cameras and commute and also other people call in and report!

Feel Free to leave your own reports! thats the point! if you are in traffic or a know that traffic is really good in an area call in and leave a report (option 2)

the real point is to have the entire community calling in and reporting

792-8884 kokuatraffic

option 1 listen to reports
option 2 Leave a report

hey 808blogger

been trying to keep up kokuatraffic for a few days. some days pretty good, some so-so. interesting concept.

nice to call in and hear a report when you want and not wait every ten minutes...

how bout this...for the morning commute, i think most people want to know how it is at the airport viaduct off ramps, middle street overpass, and the new nuisance, the h1 ewa bound from pc to the merge. ridiculous.

for the pm, airport viaduct, middle street townbound, stadium, and maybe ft. weaver, but that's the same story.

looking forward to more reports from whoever. do you look at cameras or your own commute?

[Video Guy]

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hey 808blogger

been trying to keep up kokuatraffic for a few days. some days pretty good, some so-so. interesting concept.

nice to call in and hear a report when you want and not wait every ten minutes...

how bout this...for the morning commute, i think most people want to know how it is at the airport viaduct off ramps, middle street overpass, and the new nuisance, the h1 ewa bound from pc to the merge. ridiculous.

for the pm, airport viaduct, middle street townbound, stadium, and maybe ft. weaver, but that's the same story.

looking forward to more reports from whoever. do you look at cameras or your own commute?

[glossyp]

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I hate commuting and So I Invented my own traffic reporting system. It allows users to record their own reports and it allows other users to vote based on the content... dumb reports will get deleted quickly. Also USers that subscribe to the twitter user Will get any Trafic ALERTS (real alerts like nimitz the otherday) SMS'd right to the cell phone. There is also a leaderboard to ecourage good reporting. Give it Try, I am trying to get users to Use the system! It would have saved me time on nimitz If i knew (since I could have listened on the system) and taken the h1 thru town.
the website is http://www.kokuatraffic.com
and you can call in to the number 792-8884 its totally free.
I hope it helps some people get the road conditions in realtime before you leave the office and during the commute!

This is awesome! I'll definitely participate especially because I'm often on the road and I can send reports as well as get them.

You should post the info in the Route 808 thread as well if you haven't already.

[808blogger]

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I hate commuting and So I Invented my own traffic reporting system. It allows users to record their own reports and it allows other users to vote based on the content... dumb reports will get deleted quickly. Also USers that subscribe to the twitter user Will get any Trafic ALERTS (real alerts like nimitz the otherday) SMS'd right to the cell phone. There is also a leaderboard to ecourage good reporting. Give it Try, I am trying to get users to Use the system! It would have saved me time on nimitz If i knew (since I could have listened on the system) and taken the h1 thru town.
the website is http://www.kokuatraffic.com
and you can call in to the number 792-8884 its totally free.
I hope it helps some people get the road conditions in realtime before you leave the office and during the commute!

[hawaiiguy]

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I also agree that Danielle Tucker is more specific and better with the traffic reports gridlocks, alternatives, etc. than Dave and Jason...

[glossyp]

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Since this old thread has been revived I'll throw in my two cents as a regular Ewa-bound commuter coming from the Sand Island area. Jason and Dave's traffic reports have about as much value as a farting cat. Danielle Tucker on the other hand actually bothers to take a look at the traffic and communicate when Kamehameha or Salt Lake are better options than the H-1 or H-201, something those other two never think about.

[LikaNui]

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Good old Slick Vic...where you been?

Not here, that's for sure. His last post was on June 20.
Of 2004.

[craigwatanabe]

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Good old Slick Vic...where you been?

[cynsaligia]

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The Afternoon Drive is a major day part for Hawai'i radio.

When most people get in the car on the way home from work, they turn on the radio for....?

I've heard that folks want to hear the traffic reports in order to make the ride home the smoothest. Others could give a rip about traffic reports because your gonna be stuck in it regardless of what they say on the radio


How important is the traffic report to you?

What's most the important out of your radio on the afternoon drive home?

Traffic, Music, Jokes, or other?


Holla at a playa!
(translation:
"speak your mind")


-vic

hey, vic, you're da bomb, baby! done any booty dooty lately?

maybe my opinion won't count so much, since my commute is basically between kaimuki and liliha or makiki and liliha, and most of the time i leave for work at 9:00 a.m. and come home after 6:00 p.m. (traffic anyway, even at that hour, esp going diamond head up until the punahou offramp). but i hate traffic with a passion (hence my slightly wierd hours at work) and therefore i do like knowing if there are any extraordinary traffic problems (water main breaks on ward, extra heavy gridlock thru downtown on first fridays, traffic due to UH game stuff...that sort of thing). i work and go to school so sometimes i'm not always aware of what's going on around town that might affect commute times.

also, even tho dave hisaka's traffic spiel is virutally the same every day, he's gotten to be a little more entertaining, esp now that with taka on another station, he's eliminated the "taka, you're gay" jokes. i almost called in on cool e's show yesterday to say that dave's sexy traffic was rather amusing (not that i didn't already know geeks can be sexy). but then again, sexy traffic was all about fluff, nothing substantial.

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Nimitz Highway is completely closed in the 'ewa-bound direction at Sand Island Access Road.........

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar...350169478.html

[Kenika]

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I had the pleasure of working Airborne Traffic with "Tony Scott" for a while. Very interesting flying a small plane all over the island, mostly between the H-1/H-2 merge and Hawaii Kai, but occasionally much farther out. The updrafts and thermals over the ridges really threw that plane around, but the views were incredible. It was definitely Mr. Toad's Wild Ride up there. I have to give Tony a lot of credit: he was doing a live report every 6 minutes for two hours at a pop, he had to remember which station he was talking to and which name he was using, he had to be listening to and talking to the tower at the airport, flying the plane, watching for other planes and helicopters... all at the same time, and he always had a perfect grasp of all of it. Amazing guy, and I hope he and the family are doing well in (I think) Seattle.

I had heard that Tony was movining to the mainland, also, but check out
the following link:
www.co.honolulu.hi.us/dts/traffa_razzi.htm
Is that the same Tony Scott?
He's still in Hawaii?

[adamcarr]

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The Afternoon Drive is a major day part for Hawai'i radio.

When most people get in the car on the way home from work, they turn on the radio for....?

I've heard that folks want to hear the traffic reports in order to make the ride home the smoothest. Others could give a rip about traffic reports because your gonna be stuck in it regardless of what they say on the radio


How important is the traffic report to you?

What's most the important out of your radio on the afternoon drive home?

Traffic, Music, Jokes, or other?


Holla at a playa!
(translation:
"speak your mind")


-vic

Unless it's a station constantly branded as "Hawaii's Information station, 10 minute traffic etc..." I gather that people like less traffic info. (In the afternoons.) Traffic is kind-of common sense now-a-days... All messed up. C'mon, unless it's something BIG, the traffic reports say basically the same thing everyday. Everyone I talk to says: the less clutter the better. Get them home with music and the personality!

A.C.

[slickvic]

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wow that is incredible!
thanks for the link!

ima save that as one of my favorites right now!



thanks again!

-vic

[Pomai]

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An article in today's Advertiser covered HPD's newest addition to the City and County of Honolulu traffic website.

This collateral site now receives up-to-the-minute reports directly from their dispatch center. It reports motor vehicle collisions (MVC's), stalls, and other snarls or hazards. It lists the incidents by date, time, type, address, location and area. The site automatically "refreshes" every 30 seconds. There's also a link at the bottom to the traffic-cam site.

So before you depart your home, office or school, just hop on the net first, get an update of your route, then plan accordingly. The site is also accessible (as text only) from internet-enabled wireless phones.

http://www4.co.honolulu.hi.us/hpdtraffic

[IBadget]

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I take TheBus so listening to the radio is not really an option even with earphones/headphones.

Helen, I take TheBus also. I have a walkman AM/FM radio, and I listen to it while I am riding TheBus. I pretty much have the walkman tuned to Original Hits KUMU AM 1500 for my Adult Standards fix. Whenever TheBus stops due to traffic, I tune my walkman to KUMU Lite 94.7 to find out why there is traffic. I recommend that you purchase a walkman and listen to it while you are riding TheBus. Speaking of walkmans, I think it would be nice if there were a walkman that receives satellite radio.