If memory serves me, I generally make a habit of posting something either Christmas Day or Christmas Eve. This year will be no different , once again if my memory is correct.
Trip up north from New York City to Hartford Connecticut was a horror on Christmas Eve. News Radio 88 was saying all highways were clear in Westchester and Connecticut except they were patently wrong. I-95 North was clogged a good portion of the ride from the CT border through to New Haven.
I was so peeved I was searching for their “report a tie-up” phone number to give them a “piece of my mind” for getting it so wrong. Made me realize the point of the regular traffic reports from the likes of News Radio 88 or WINS in New York City is going the route of many other services. While I was stuck in traffic eating my heart out, I reverted to checking google maps on my iPhone to see if there was an alternative to the snail’s pace of my current route.
Though I did not find an alternative worth the detour , it was startling to see the normal route which I was on indicated as heavy in traffic. If I had bothered to check google maps earlier in my travels instead of depending on the dated , advertising laden NewsRadio 88 traffic news reports, I would have had the opportunity to take the Merritt Parkway north to just Southeast of Hartford probably bypassing the clogged I-95 horror. From now on , I will do what I should have done a while ago. I will depend on google Maps and NewsRadio 88 like many of the big media outlets will lose another part of their demographic for advertising purposes.

[tags]Julio Hernandez-Miyares, Christmas, News Radio 88[/tags]

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