CT Twitter Traffic Alerts Available From Connecticut DOT
Connecticut Department of Transportation traffic alerts are now available free via Twitter. These helpful updates provide nearly instant notification of traffic tie-ups and accidents. You have the option to subscribe to a statewide feed or one of four different districts.
Connecticut Traffic updates can be separately monitored on Twitter using any of the following feeds courtesy of the CT DOT (scroll down for a click-able link to each feed):
Use the following links to subscribe to these updates:
District One Traffic Incidents
http://www.twitter.com/CTDOT_District1
Andover, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bolton, Bristol, Cheshire, Coventry, Cromwell, Durham, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Glastonbury, Hartford, Manchester, Meriden, Middlefield, Middletown, New Britain, Newington, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Somers, Southington, South Windsor, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Willington, Windsor, Windsor Locks, Wolcott.
District Two Traffic Incidents
http://www.twitter.com/CTDOT_District2
Ashford, Bozrah, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Columbia, Deep River, East Haddam, East Hampton, East Lyme, Eastford, Essex, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Haddam, Hampton, Hebron, Killingly, Killingworth, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Mansfield, Marlborough, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Plainfield, Pomfret, Portland, Preston, Putnam, Salem, Scotland, Sprague, Sterling, Stonington, Thompson, Voluntown, Waterford, Westbrook, Windham, Woodstock.
District Three Traffic Incidents
http://www.twitter.com/CTDOT_District3
Bethany, Branford, Bridgeport, Darien, East Haven, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, Monroe, New Canaan, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Norwalk, Orange, Shelton, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Wallingford, West Haven, Weston, Westport, Wilton, Woodbridge.
District Four Traffic Incidents
http://www.twitter.com/CTDOT_District4
Ansonia, Avon, Barkhamsted, Beacon Falls, Bethel, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Burlington, Canaan, Canton, Colebrook, Cornwall, Danbury, Derby, East Granby, Farmington, Goshen, Granby, Hartland, Harwinton, Kent, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Fairfield, New Hartford, New Milford, Newtown, Norfolk, North Canaan, Oxford, Plymouth, Prospect, Redding, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Salisbury, Seymour, Sharon, Sherman, Simsbury, Southbury, Suffield, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, Winchester, Woodbury.
via: CT DOT – Follow e-Traffic Incidents on Twitter
How To Setup SMS Messaging With Twitter For DOT Traffic Alerts
Setup your Twitter account so that all messages from the CT DOT are sent directly to your phone as a text message. First be certain that you are on an unlimited SMS text plan so as not to incur significant charges for SMS messages.
Twitter allows you to set your account so that Twitter messages from anyone that you follow are sent to your phone as SMS text.
To enable this feature, first log into your Twitter account and go to the settings – mobile.
The Twitter service will have you send an SMS text message to 40404. Upon confirming your Twitter account/password you will be activated to receive SMS text messages from those Twitter users you follow.
Tip: You can follow more than one person and opt to receive all their messages to your SMS inbox.
Next go to the appropriate CT DOT Twitter account (review the list above to find the appropriate account you’d like to receive messages from) and turn on the mobile receipt of messages to your phone.
After you’ve enabled your Twitter account so that SMS messages can be sent to your phone, and you’ve told Twitter which accounts you’d like mobile updates for then you will start to receive SMS messages whenever a new “tweet” is issued by the follower(s) you’ve selected.
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