Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 16:42 GMT
Another system that was added to get votes/attention and unsurprisingly now that its there and old they've moved on to other things, thus dumping such tax expensive projects in the process... like building snowmen when the snow's melting...
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 16:42 GMT
Another obvious f***up is the inability to process routes that run between England and Wales, such as the M4, as the latter region comes under a different bureaucracy.
Who builds these things?
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 16:47 GMT
I see the little pop down calender works, I mean it pops down you just cant select todays date on it, love these things, makes me smile on the first day back :-)
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 16:52 GMT
ROFL.
What if I want to know what the traffic WAS like in 2007? Then it would be handy...
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 18:26 GMT
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.
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 18:26 GMT
My girlfriend works for the Highways Agency, she made all her own Christmas Cards this year, wished everybody a merry christmas and a great 2007
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 18:26 GMT
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.
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 18:27 GMT
Damn. I should've listened the Doc instead of drunk-driving the DeLorean over 88 mph last night. I think I jumped 2 years into the past!
I need to get back to the Future!!!
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 18:27 GMT
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 !
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 20:23 GMT
> The area selection doesn't work anyway [ ... ]
Works fine for me. Are you entirely sure you haven't disabled scripts, or something similar?
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 20:23 GMT
...as the Highways Agency has just outsourced its IT to one of the Usual Suspects and they are now playing the game of, "You want us to do what? That wasn't in the contract - it'll cost you..."
Posted Wednesday 2nd January 2008 20:23 GMT
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,
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 08:42 GMT
No wonder they haven't got to 2008 yet! haha, they lost 2007!
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 09:20 GMT
"The Traffic Forecaster will not accept historical dates. Please enter a date between today and 31st December 2006."
The Highways Agency are truly on the ball.
Where's the traffic cone icon?
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 09:45 GMT
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.
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 10:34 GMT
Thank goodness we don't have to suffer these Traffic Wombles in Scotland.
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 10:34 GMT
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. :(
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 14:15 GMT
... 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?
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 14:54 GMT
"Traffic Forecaster is temporarily unavailable due to technical difficulties. We are currently working to put this right and expect normal service to be resumed shortly.
We apologise for the disruption to this service and any inconvenience it may have caused."
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 16:59 GMT
So, somebody at HA reads The Register.
Lets hope they take notice and replace that unhelpful and annoying ticker at the same time.
Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 22:10 GMT
So that would be the borked site we had before with nothing working then?
Great! And how much did this cost us?
Posted Friday 4th January 2008 08:46 GMT
Takes this long to add a new year to the dropdown? wth.
Posted Friday 4th January 2008 14:12 GMT
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!
Posted Friday 4th January 2008 22:11 GMT
Until the end of 2010, that is.
Yellow fluorescent jacket with "Highways Agency Wankers" on the back.
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