Travel Times
Those Dynamic Message Signs that you have seen on the I-15 and other highways around the valley are finally started to get you the information you want.
We have already seen construction information posted, amber alerts, and detours… but now, you will see travel times.
The travel times will be posted on the signs between the 215 Beltway and Spaghetti Bowl. The times are estimates only.
You will see the travel times posted between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
There are 17 Dynamic Message Signs in the valley right now, hopefully, the others will eventually show travel times too.
Remember, the Valley highways don’t have sensors like other big cities. Those sensors help read the speeds of the traffic to show slow downs and traffic speeds. We have to rely on other resources.
Here at Channel 8, we use Beat the Traffic. This system takes data from a number of resources and calculates it to show the current speeds. We show green flows for normal moving traffic…. yellow for somewhat slow traffic… and red for major congestion.
We also have calculated travel times to help you before you leave your home or work. All the information is also online here on our traffic page.
Hopefully, all this will help make your lives easier!
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Why aren’t the travel times listed between 9am and 1:30pm along with the other information on the signs?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
I think they feel traffic is not heavy enough to get a good reading- of course if something happens – then they would put up the times. I am sure it’s a work in progress at first. I will keep you posted.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:59 am
You know, it’s funny for me… the first week of January 2009 will mark my 7th year here in Vegas. I moved here at the very very end of 2001 and I came from a town of about 45,000 people in northwest Ohio and I thought Vegas was HUGE at the time. In the past 7 years (which several people have told me is long enough to be considered a “local”) I’ve actually seen this place begin to “grow up”… it’s sort of funny how your perspective changes. When I moved here there were only about a million residents. Now we’re over 2 million from what I hear, and still we’re seeing things like what appears in Dayna’s blog about Las Vegas not having the sensors “like other big cities”. It’s been kind of fun to watch the dynamic of Vegas change. I look forward to the next 7 years here. (We’re sure to have sensors by then!!)