Radio 2 is not the only source of traffic bulletins, local radio also gives this service, and most car radios can automatically switch to traffic bulletins.
Partly thanks to the proliferation of independent radio stations, combined with the extra time spent sitting in traffic jams, radio listenership has risen by a quarter in the past five years.
Further, while radio traffic had been monitored it had not been recorded by the embassy.
An official who heard tape recordings of the radio traffic from Flight 1549 reported the pilot was extraordinarily calm during the event.
"We saw a drone, a drone aircraft, " the pilot can be heard telling air traffic controllers on radio calls captured by the website LiveATC.net.
And radio traffic reporters have begun using it more frequently.
He said observers were monitoring border guards' radio traffic.
Air traffic controllers lost radio communication with the Airbus A320, carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew, when it was flying at 37, 000 feet, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Recommendations call for Diplomatic Security agents to accompany every convoy, Rice the installation of video cameras in security vehicles, audio recordings of radio traffic between the embassy and such convoys and improved coordination and communication between convoys and the U.S. military.
Wireless phones may be able to help commuters across the country who search for traffic reports on the radio, online, and on TV.
Air traffic controllers say the illegal radio broadcasts often block out vital communications with pilots.
Air traffic controllers re-established radio contact after the plane had flown about 150 miles past its destination.
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"Air Force One, missed approach, " the pilot announced to air traffic controllers, according to radio recordings on the website LiveATC.net.
As we flew over a thunderstorm near Omaha we heard airline pilots on the radio beseeching air traffic controllers for higher altitudes.
Air-traffic controllers currently use traditional radio transmissions to issue taxi clearances, while pilots manually control planes and peer out cockpit windows to spot potential collision hazards.
After 78 minutes of radio silence, the pilots re-established radio contact with air traffic controllers, it said.
The success of maps has created another business, called Inrix, that delivers real-time traffic information to the maps from radio transponders in taxis and fleet cars.
This hardware was used to build a simulated aircraft that ran many of the systems found on commercial aircraft and could swap data via radio with the air traffic and navigation systems used in the real world.
That could make traffic reports, now gathered haphazardly by radio stations, far more precise.
That could make traffic reports, now gathered haphazardly by am radio stations, far more precise.
The Traffic Scotland website, variable message signs and internet radio will be used to provide up-to-date information.
But people who listen to pirate radio tend not to be concerned about the problem - which can also affect radio communications by emergency services and air traffic control.
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In the next programme Jenny Cuffe returns to Bristol and it's French twin Bordeaux, to find out how people get about the city and what plans there are for solving traffic gridlock, broadcast on Monday 13 December on Radio 4 2000 GMT.
Usually smooth on the radio, I boot my first call to air traffic control.
The pilots said there was "a concentrated period of discussion where they did not monitor the airplane or calls" from air traffic control, though both said they heard conversation on the radio, the report said.
The new law will widen the agency's monitoring to include all crossborder cable traffic (from the current limitations on the FRA to monitor only military radio communications).
Roseanne Cash was on the radio, singing about the seven-year ache, and the traffic was opening up.
O2 and Vodafone will not be able to offer 4G until other parts of the radio spectrum - including those previously used for analogue television and air traffic control - are freed up and sold off.
I'll never cease to be impressed with the way they could be riding down, say, Lexington Avenue at the speed of traffic, holding a casual conversation with one ear while listening to the police radio with the other, and spotting a guy out of the corner of their eye about to commit a purse snatching.
The radio news isn't urgent, peppered with useful English phrases: traffic jam, bumper-to-bumper.
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