Highway Hotline on Twitter
As a way to increase awareness of road conditions this winter, the Highway Hotline launched its Twitter feed on Wednesday.
“We’re harnessing the power of social media tools as another means to quickly get important information to motorists to help plan their journeys,” said Highways and Infrastructure Minister Jim Reiter in a news release.
The Twitter account, @SKGOVHwyhotline, can be accessed at https://twitter.com/#!/skgovhwyhotline. It will provide its followers with four types of road condition Tweets: Highway closed, highway reopened, travel not recommended and travel not recommended status removed.
“We took the approach of providing only these priority of highway alerts for motorists who want to follow us via Twitter,” said Reiter in the release.
The Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure reminds drivers of tips and more detailed road information that can be found on the Highway Hotline Facebook page at www.facebook.com/saskatchewanhighwayhotline.
Access points for information, such as interactive maps, phone numbers, social media and text reports for web browsers and handheld devices can be found at www. highways.gov.sk.ca/road-conditions.