Garden State parkway - Update
Here's a twist. Last night before heading home I checked the traffic on the Parkway ONLINE and saw that the Parkway had major traffic on my route. This was about an hour prior to leaving work. When I left work, I plugged in my receiver and MANUALLy tuned the station to 103.5 instead of letting the station be picked up automatically. The unit immediately picked up a signal and changed my route to avoid the Parkway. I said to myself, wow this must be working now. Out of pure curiousity, I took the Parkway in spite of the rerouting and the traffic was flowing like never before!!! (65 mph for my entire route). This seems to be an issue with how often the updates come in and maybe has something to do with which station is selected...??? It did warn me this time but the traffic was long gone by the time I left work (1 hour later). During the route, I once again manually changed the station that the receiver uses and it updated the route and showed accurate congestion a few miles ahead which was right on target.
Here's a twist. Last night before heading home I checked the traffic on the Parkway ONLINE and saw that the Parkway had major traffic on my route. This was about an hour prior to leaving work. When I left work, I plugged in my receiver and MANUALLy tuned the station to 103.5 instead of letting the station be picked up automatically. The unit immediately picked up a signal and changed my route to avoid the Parkway. I said to myself, wow this must be working now. Out of pure curiousity, I took the Parkway in spite of the rerouting and the traffic was flowing like never before!!! (65 mph for my entire route). This seems to be an issue with how often the updates come in and maybe has something to do with which station is selected...??? It did warn me this time but the traffic was long gone by the time I left work (1 hour later). During the route, I once again manually changed the station that the receiver uses and it updated the route and showed accurate congestion a few miles ahead which was right on target.