VDOT 511 Virginia Traffic

This new update is awful. It now requires me to have my location services on in order to use the app. (I found that if I tap ‘go to settings’ when the box pops up, I can then click the back arrow in the top left corner on my iPhone to bypass it.) Beyond that: 1) there is now a bunch of new options that I have no use for, 2) the colored lines indicating traffic congestion are ridiculously thick and blurry and don’t work well, 3) the map now opens up to a random zoomed in area in Staunton, requiring me to zoom out and then move to find the roads/cameras I am looking for. What was wrong with the old version?! I guess it’s the cliché of “leave it to the government to ruin something that was working perfectly fine.”

The new update is multiple steps backwards in terms of ease of use. Before your location and cameras would come right up. Now you have to search and scroll to find your current location and cameras. The camera portion makes no sense now since the cameras are displayed in numerical order but they don’t corespondent to the actual mileage markers. Example. Camera 1 is out in Stanton at mile marker 1. Camera 2 is woodland road in Hampton VA, camera 3 is HRBT and then Camera 4 is back in Stanton at mile marker 1. Additionally site says log in to save favorite cameras but there is no link to allow log in. When you open up the traffic map it defaults to the center of the state out by Lynchburg. This is with location services active all the time. The extra features are nice but too hard to use. Very disappointed with the new update.

It would be nice if the app would allow background audio to continue playing when looking at the traffic cameras. It doesn’t really make sense as the traffic cameras do not feature any audio. Therefore music, podcast, audiobook, etc should be allowed to continue playing uninterrupted. Additionally on some of the cameras it can hard to figure out the direction of travel the camera is facing. Thank you.