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acflint · Posted: 02/03/2010 04:50am Post subject: Garmin 760 and traffic in Brisbane

I have a 760 with teh lug in traffic, had it now for about 6 months.
In short the traffic add on is utter crap and not worth $1 let alone the $120 tha I paid for.
Why is this so.
Well I have for the dame period travelled across Brisbane each morning and afternoon ( live one side and work on the other).
I use different routes.
THis traffic tells me " traffic ahead, shows the red on the screen and the raod is empty.
And I see a lot of the green logo ( no traffic indicator) and I am completly gridlocked.
This is not once, but on many, many occasions.
My wife works in the department of transport and tells me that there is not a lot of traffic live feeds, and she questios the accuracy from a technical perspective.
So what so I do, well I phone 131940 every day to get the traffic report from the Brisbane traffic centre, this is very accurate and costs a phone call.
So the questions are, where do these guy's get their information from, why is it so inaccurate and why is it not properly updated.
Anyone in authority prepared to offer comment.
I certainly do not recommend this add on to anyone, and would not wast the cash again.

johmazz2006 · Posted: 02/04/2010 09:15pm Post subject: Re: Garmin 760 and traffic in Brisbane

Have heard of the same complaints in Melbourne, glad I didn't waste the money getting the "traffic alert".
Seems like it is early days for this type of thing in Aust.
By the way, traffic alerts ARE NOT supplied by Garmin.
john

elikandme

Also have the same problems here in Sydney/Illawarra

As with everything : we get what we pay for.
In this case very little for a bit of a cable and crap (but lifetime!) traffic updates.