Austin Traffic iPhone App Review

Description:

Do you live in the Austin Texas area?  If so, then there is an app that is a must download for you.  If you commute, you know how frustrating it can be to get stuck in traffic.  After a long day at work, the only thing you want is to get home, not wait in long lines of mundane traffic.  So what is the solution?  The answer is the Austin Traffic app for the iphone, ipad, and the ipod touch.  This app is pushing the forefront of technology as it really gives you some amazing information.

This app is to be used as a tool to give you live and up to the minute traffic information in the Austin Area.  The information is displayed on the app which makes it very easy to read and interpret.  This app literally shows you live traffic cams right on the phone!  That’s right, you can seriously look at your phone, and see which roads are totally plugged up and which ones are not.  This beats the every ten minutes on the 9 traffic report on the radio which can be slow and not give you all the information you need.  This app is cheap enough that you have nothing to lose to try it out, but we are sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

Features:

  • This app is for the iphone, ipad, and the ipod touch.
  • This app allows you to view animated traffic camera igames of four main roads in Ausin.  You simply have to tap on an image to pause the animation or to make the camera view size bigger
  • you an also customize the listings to show you the major roads that you frequently drive on so that you can monitor the traffic on those roads.
  • Each traffic incident detail page links to the maps application to show you exactly where the issue is taking place so that you can re-route or get around it a different way
  • You can also re-arrange the listings to show the major roads that you frequently travel
  • automatically refreshes the app every five minutes for the latest information available.
  • The app is clean and very easy to navigate as it has descriptive buttons and easy to read text.

Conclusion:

As you can see, this app is what you need when driving on busy roads in Austin.  The app costs $4.99 and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by other users.