Traffic report requirements

Have you ever thought what would result if you wrote the requirements specification for radio traffic reports?

Apparently, someone specified that warnings of traffic jams would always be broadcast immediately after your last chance to take a detour, or the jam has already cleared.

Today is a case in point. At just the point where I was stuck, engine off, on the motorway, the local radio station reported that the motorways were "flowing freely". Oh yeah? Not from where I was seated, it wasn't. After about ten minutes, though, the traffic started moving and soon I was back to normal rush hour speeds - 40 mph.

Then the traffic report comes back on to report that the debris on the motorway has just been cleared and traffic is getting back to normal.

Brilliant!