Allow the fine folks at WSDOT to tell you about Active Traffic Management, which will keep you from being “exposed to the dangers of traffic”:
Pretty cool. I can’t wait to tell my grandkids that even in the early 21st century, the best way to find out which route to take in our car was to wait 10 minutes for the traffic report on the radio and pray that (a) they covered the highway you were on, and (b) the report came on while you still had the opportunity to turn.
We do have a better way than radio reports. You can use a web-enabled cell phone to get traffic info from Google maps or from here: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/flowmaps/bridges.htm
True! And I do use the flow maps frequently on my iPhone. But alas, it’s quite dangerous to check your iPhone while driving.
I realize there are subscription services for GPS devices that do this sort of thing as well. They’re just not widely used yet.