Traffic-free journeys

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

That site has about 1% of the cameras available on other sites, particularly the Highways Agency site. All in all, rubbish!

Mark, I agree with you 100% in terms of the camera availability and just wish to state that I am not endorsing this site above and before any other. I merely came across the site because, and I may be abnormal in doing so, but I do like to see how congested a motorway is before I use it - in the past this has been the occasional broadcast on the TV. In fairness I have used the Highways Agency before and, having just tried it again a few minutes ago lest it have been improved, locating a traffic camera is incredibly tedious. Where I believe View Traffic has the edge is in its simplicity of finding what you want. The Highways Agency site does a lot more than provide traffic camera information, and in fairness I suspect it does a grand job. View Traffic looks quite new judging by the Blog posts (which I think is a good thing in terms of making it a more community-driven site) and could be the reason for the low number of cameras already on. However if I wanted to look at how busy Piccadilly Circus is on my lunch break or before setting off for home, I can enter it in the search box at the top of the site - no where could I locate a similar function within the Highways Agency site.

Once again, not promoting the site specifically but if the Highways Agency site was easier to follow I'd use it any day. If not I do hope View Traffic get more cams on as I genuinely see it as being of benefit to a lot of people.