Sunday Morning Speed Trap
This morning at 8:30 I was heading east on Highway 36 between 35W and 35E. In that short section, I saw two cops pulling people over, presumably for speeding. It was entirely possible to be speeding at that time since the road was practically empty, and it made me wonder just how busy the various roads in town are, on average, at various times on various days of the week. For example, if I’m heading east from Minneapolis at 8:30 on a Tuesday morning, is it better to use 694, 36, 94, or 494? Does anyone know how to find that information?
I know I can go look at traffic statistics and cameras for current state conditions on the DOT website. I’m curious about something that shows a longer term trend.
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MnDOT has had a really excellent visual tool on the web that lets you look up the actual historical data on the various recorders embedded in the actual roadway available at http://data.dot.state.mn.us/datatools/
Using that you actually see what lanes are faster on which sections of roadway on a particular time and day of the week if you really want to, or do comparisons between sections of roadway over time. Last I checked it had data in some areas for almost a decade.
Mmmmm, data pr0n.
Thanks, this is the kind of thing I was looking for.