A good app or site for easy identification of road closures?
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Hi all. I have been caught out with road closures a lot recently and am looking for an easy and fast way of identifying what's planned. The current choices I have found are tbh crap; highways england downloadable .xls which you need to browse all roads you intend to travel on to find planned works, or the traffic england site where it is similar, you having to select each individual road.
Ideally, google maps would interrogate these sources for me and build it into their route planner. Has anyone found a quick and easy way of checking a route in advance of setting out upon it that doesnt involve a massive amount of clickf**kery?
Cheers.
Ideally, google maps would interrogate these sources for me and build it into their route planner. Has anyone found a quick and easy way of checking a route in advance of setting out upon it that doesnt involve a massive amount of clickf**kery?
Cheers.
Thought id Google to see if the answer was already there - and found this so "holy thread resurrection Batman"!
Thebaggers second point being exactly my issue - not least because I try and do all my long distance driving either late into the evening or in the early morning - and want to know if X road is due to be closing at X o'clock. Also, I am invariably heading from Suffolk/Essex borders to somewhere North - and there are some key decision points (A1 or A14 at Huntingdon; M6 or M1 at Cathorpe) that you want to plan ahead for if you can...
Thebaggers second point being exactly my issue - not least because I try and do all my long distance driving either late into the evening or in the early morning - and want to know if X road is due to be closing at X o'clock. Also, I am invariably heading from Suffolk/Essex borders to somewhere North - and there are some key decision points (A1 or A14 at Huntingdon; M6 or M1 at Cathorpe) that you want to plan ahead for if you can...
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Waze pulls data from this (it used to be called "Elgin'), Highways England and TfL and generally processes via a tool someone has created called "closure monitor".
Closures happen in a few ways:
1. automatically via Closure Monitor
2. manually via Closure Monitor
3. via the Waze closures team
4. via third party partners
5. ad-hoc via individual editors
6. via the Waze app
The automatic method relies on the data provided and the affected segments being obvious, the others are all human-based and aren't always picked up, especially in areas where there aren't as many active editors or users aren't reporting in real time.
Waze pulls data from this (it used to be called "Elgin'), Highways England and TfL and generally processes via a tool someone has created called "closure monitor".
Closures happen in a few ways:
1. automatically via Closure Monitor
2. manually via Closure Monitor
3. via the Waze closures team
4. via third party partners
5. ad-hoc via individual editors
6. via the Waze app
The automatic method relies on the data provided and the affected segments being obvious, the others are all human-based and aren't always picked up, especially in areas where there aren't as many active editors or users aren't reporting in real time.
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