Re: RE: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 01:50 PM 8/7/2002, Dave Faneuf wrote:
> > It's not clear to me that the quality of the traffic reporters
> > matters
> > as much as the quality of the traffic information.  A station which
> > cared about having useful traffic reports would be better served
> > paying for helicopter maintenance, at least in this market.  I've
> > heard ample evidence to the effect that the traffic reports in
> > Boston
> > should be considered works of fiction.
> >
> > -GAWollman
>
>If you accept anything less than top talent (that includes the knowledge,
>ability and willingness to gather accurate information just like in news)
>then what you end up with is exactly what you have now, fictional
>accounts of traffic in Boston.
>df

To be fair, it is impossible to give a useful traffic update in less than 
two or three minutes.  Just saying "The Bourne and the Sagamore are a mess" 
at 5:30pm on a summertime Friday is a throughly useless bit of info.  A big 
DUH! goes to that statement...of course it's gonna be backed up then - it 
ALWAYS is.  What about suggestions for alternate routes, specific locations 
of slowdowns, new roadway changes with the Big Dig?   You can't give that 
kind of info in a 30 second soundbite.

It's like those portable message boards they put at an soon-to-be 
construction site that say "Construction, Expect delays".  A hell of a lot 
of good that does me.  How about a sign a mile back that says "Take X road 
for detour"?  That'd be a lot more useful in getting around a 120-car 
backup on Rt.109 or something like that.


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