Tango Traffic-what is it...and do we need it

Tango Traffic

http://tangotraffic.com/

Tango Traffic is a traffic website and 24-hour TV station that I recently found late night.  In fact it was 2 of my brothers who found it and kept it on because of the good rock music they were playing.  Basically, Tango gives constant traffic reports for the Philadelphia area with more cities to come.  During the day it seems that there are live shows and traffic reporters giving their analysis to the current traffic.  But when I have watched the channel, there seems to be just a random shuffle between all the traffic cameras in the Philly area.  The website also has a blog with articles as well as links to all the traffic cams, weather as well as public transportation informations and scheduling.

Now some people may think that this is amazing and a great resource.  But at the same time some would look at this as a waste of money, resources and usless.  In my opinion, I think that if used right, this could be a very valuable website.  The best way to use this site would be too use the site and station for research, especially if you were new to the area.  You could esily see traffic patterns that include when and where congestion is and where upcoming construction will be so that your commute can be as short as possible.  And if that doesn't work...they play a good mix of classic rock.

Does transportation run us, or do we run transportation.

I think that this is actually a pretty difficult and complicated question.  If you look at it from a day-to-day situation, I think that transportation runs us.  At any given moment, unless of course you are beyond rich and have anything and everything at your disposal, you are limited by how you can move about the world.   For example, if you are in a city, with no personal car, you are limited to public transportation or active transportation to get your from point a to point b.

BUT, if you look at it from a global perspective and over more than just a one or two day time scale, I feel that we controll transportation.  The world is always changing and so are the means that we use to get from one place to another.  The Eisenhower administration is a great example of this.  Before this time, most long distance transportation was via train due to a lack of good roadways.  But Eisenhower built countless miles of roads and highways and completely changed America to be dependant of personal automobile transportation.  While on a day-to-day plan we are forced by this decision to use cars, we as a county, and as a world, have decided to let cars become our main source of transportation.