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Title: CDOT Realtime Snow Plows
Post by: BBM3 on January 31, 2016, 09:06:38 pm

We are about to get a big snowstorm for the next 36-48 hours.
Colorado Department of Transportation has a new feature that shows the location, speed, direction of travel and more information on their fleet of snow plows.
As I type this there are 238 on the roads.
Click on a truck.
Geeky but cool.

http://www.cotrip.org/snowplow.htm#/default (http://www.cotrip.org/snowplow.htm#/default)

Title: Re: CDOT Realtime Snow Plows
Post by: LTZ C20 on January 31, 2016, 09:20:26 pm

That's kinda cool.

Title: Re: CDOT Realtime Snow Plows
Post by: square81 on February 01, 2016, 07:53:12 pm

I like that, we have something like that in Ontario (Canada) called track my plow. Pretty accurate too.

Title: Re: CDOT Realtime Snow Plows
Post by: Stewart G Griffin on February 02, 2016, 06:17:57 am

We don't get a lot of snow, thus we are not real good at removing it----2 wednesdays ago we got less than an inch which then turned to ice which caused major havoc on the roadways because we didn't pre-treat.

Then 2 days later we got a major (by our standards---20+ inches) blizzard.  We quickly got our act together and major roads were clear within 2 days.

Title: Re: CDOT Realtime Snow Plows
Post by: Irish_Alley on February 04, 2016, 04:43:37 pm

i see why they did it but i dont see why anyone would just sit and watch for a plow truck. granted the blizzard we got i didnt need a plow but others may have i think the truck weighing 7500lbs help me out i think