Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Dept. Of Good Ideas: Transtar Is Twittering


Tollway between the Katy and Southwest freeways was closed by high water for hours this morning but reopened before 9 am, according to Houston TranStar. Flooding Storms Rake Houston A Pakistan News. The two-car wreck occurred about 7 am on the northbound Gulf Freeway near Telephone Road, according to Houston TranStar. The accident blocked two mainlanes .By Richard Connelly in Traffic Transtar, the umbrella agency that coordinates traffic on Houston roads, is entering the Twitterarium, or whatever the kidz and engineers have blocked the freeway as they try to determine if the overpass was damaged, said Dinah Massie, spokeswoman for Houston TranStar.

A wreck on Interstate 45 southbound near North Shepherd affected two lanes and slowed traffic to under 20 mph around 7:20 am, according to Houston Transtar. It was cleared at 7:10 am, according to Houston TranStar, but left behind dense residual traffic. Shortly after 7:30 am another wreck occurred nearby, On Tuesday, the City of Baytown announced it would start posting its announcements on Twitter, and Houston Transtar said they would start posting traffic. The stall, reported around 6:30 am, had traffic thick beyond Highway 6, according to Houston TranStar. It was cleared around 7:30 am, but the freeway. The wreck or wrecks occurred about 6 am on the northbound Gulf Freeway near Broadway and Park Place, according to Houston TranStar. Three lanes were blocked.On one of our Transtar JamCams along I-45 near Tidwell, we saw one stranded motorist just sitting on the back of his car on the frontage road.

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