06-01-2024, 01:32 AM
Travel news has gone down hill since they dropped having dedicated Inrix presenters who knew the area and knew traffic and travel inside out
Now you get a disinterested presenter reading out five sets of pre-planned roadworks off their screen with no added context, as quick as possible, so they can move onto the next item. There will be very little ‘live traffic conditions’ type of travel news.
And that’s in the local hours, in the regional hours it’s worse as the presenter then mispronounces the place names or Road names as an added bonus, that’s assuming the pre-rec travel manages to fire off correctly to all stations taking the regional show
Now you get a disinterested presenter reading out five sets of pre-planned roadworks off their screen with no added context, as quick as possible, so they can move onto the next item. There will be very little ‘live traffic conditions’ type of travel news.
And that’s in the local hours, in the regional hours it’s worse as the presenter then mispronounces the place names or Road names as an added bonus, that’s assuming the pre-rec travel manages to fire off correctly to all stations taking the regional show