Twitter traffic updates via commuterfeed.com...

In an effort to try to show Twitter as useful, behold commuterfeed.com.

Commuterfeed.com is a website devoted to collecting updates about commutes from around the country. The site sets up some common guidelines for the Twitter community to use when alerting others of commuting congestion. Most importantly, find your region and use the correct format (e.g. @commuter (SPACE) citycode (SPACE) incident). Check the site for more detailed instructions.

It sounds like a great idea, for those of us sitting in front of our computers and checking our commutes before leaving.

I just wonder how I would use this to receive updates to my phone. Being a Palm OS user for the time being, I don't think I have many good Twitter client options. I know TwitterBerry is out there for you BlackBerry users (I've never used it).

Turning on updates to my phone from commuter would yield tweets from every area of the country.

Commuterfeed.com has an RSS feed for each region. But, then I see the only option as converting the RSS feed to e-mail. I've already discussed how not real time that would be.

Perhaps I am too greedy to want to see real-time traffic updates from the Twitter community about only my metro area, on my cell phone (I won't look at my phone while driving).

The website is still useful.

I guess the alternatives are that old fashioned thing called the radio or staring at traffic cameras online (in my opinion, not very helpful).

Can any Twitter users help me filter real-time messages to my phone? What am I missing?

Over half of D.C. workers take more than 30 minutes to get to work...

According to a post on Wonkette, only 44.9% of D.C. commuters get to their jobs in under 30 minutes. D.C. has the lowest percentage in that category in the country.

This doesn't mean D.C. has the worst commute, it is still NYC. The typical morning commute in the big apple takes 36 minutes. That sounds like suck to me.
Almost half a million people in the NYC area take at least 90 minutes to get to work. Reminds me of the people who drive into D.C. from West Virginia (which I think is just plain stupid).

MSNBC article: LINK

Can you believe that if it takes 25 minutes daily (50 minute round trip), to get to work, that it equates to 209 hours of commuting yearly?

It makes me want to stick to flying to work, at least I can sleep on the plane....

(I actually live off the exit pictured above.)