Highways Agency forecasts last year's traffic Those of you thinking of heading out onto the UK highways and byways are advised not to bother checking out the Highways Agency's handy traffic forecaster, unless you're lucky enough to have a Back to the Future DeLorean: Highways Agency traffic forecaster with no option for 2008 Yup, it looks like the Agency's staff had a …
The area selection doesn't work anyway, so it doesn't matter whether you selected a date or not. In addition, the nice drop-down calendar carefully doesn't display the rightmost columns to prevent anybody from selecting future months. Mind you, it doesn't actually do anything except report a programming error if you select any date that it does display.
In short, the page doesn't work at all.
Since its "developers" obviously never did any unit tests, let alone system testing, I hereby claim my system tester's fee.
I think this is a rather poignant fable about which tells of the great toys we get for Christmas which we think are brilliant but if we don't look after them they end up just taking up space and not working properly. OK Highways Agency, a point well made, I'll go and feed that ruddy puppy.
And if you select an area and check the box next to the weather logo and then mouse over the little triangles that appear you will see the weather as
Current Temp -274c - or if you are lucky and are next to the coast
Current Temp -272c - barmy or what!
Fire Logo - 'cos it looks like we need to keep warm !
Presumably "known future roadworks" are events which have settled between known, unknown, incomplete and complete based on future predictions.
This is why no work appears to be taking place while driving past.the roadworks The workers have to wait around the site because if they don't nobody will have been there to do the work. If work was at some point complete. Noticable is the distortion in reality created by the highways agency and motorway traffic,
The year is a hard coded list, probably written in 2005 by some placement year student.
The javascript is clearly broken, but you'd probably find that it worked okay on IE4.0 back in the aforementioned 2005 and if you said cross browser compatibility you'd probably be fired for knowing too much.
I was riding my bike through South Mimms services a week or two before Christmas and I saw a DeLorean on a low loader at the side of the road, decked out in full "Back to the Future" garb! I was very impressed! It had the "Mr Fusion" thing on the back and everything! Didn't get a chance to check for a flux capacitor though. :(
... insist on having a stupid and annoying ticker, that displays information either so slowly that its excruciating, or so quickly that you have to read it three times before you know what it's saying?
Why not put the information in a good and proper TEXTAREA with scrollbars that people can read at their OWN pace?
how about a Government Website Forecaster - it could predict which .gov.uk sites will be working in the near future. That way we could go straight to that site so we dont waste out time trying to get the pages on other sites working. It would be an index of sites not to visit. Some might say a complete waste of time - so another excellent potential government project!
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