Nice traffic RSS feed

[Christopher Jones]

On 5 Mar 2010, at 10:38, Jason Clifford wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:15 +0000, Michael Lush wrote:
>> I've been writing a little traffic warning script for my nslu2  
>> (nothing
>> special it plays traffic jam noises if there is a problem on the  
>> road to
>> work:-)
>>
>> Anyway I started out scraping the BBC traffic page, however I had  
>> cause to
>> look for a better source and came across this rss feed from the  
>> Highways
>> agency on this page (http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11253.aspx)
>>
>> http://www.highways.gov.uk/rssfeed/rss.xml
>>
>> Thought someone else may find it useful (I like it, it even has the
>> lat/lon of the incident so I can limit the search to bits of the  
>> A14 I
>> actually use)
>
> Thanks. That looks very useful although it's a shame it only includes
> unplanned events so most causes of serious traffic problems  
> (roadworks)
> wont be covered by it.

The regional feeds cover both planned and unplanned events;

http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/11278.aspx



Chris.