Now there’s a headline and a half… Just what are we talking about? A Halloween addition to the social sat nav application called Waze. If you drive in and around Southend-on-Sea and own a smartphone, give Waze a try. You’ll be helping to complete a map of Southend, as well as share real-time road travel [...]

Do you own an iPhone, Android Smartphone, high-end Nokia or Windows Mobile phone? Then you can help to build-up a real-time map of Southend. Waze is a social GPS application that has a big following in the US, and is now over here. The idea is simple. Drive around with this app running on your [...]

Google has just rolled out an upgrade to their controversial mapping service. In the Summer of 2009, a special Google car, equipped with state of the art cameras, roamed around Southend taking pictures of our town. Those images are now live, and by typing an address into maps.google.co.uk , you’ll be able to see and [...]

The underpass underneath the Victoria Shopping Centre is set to close permanently on Sunday the 21st February 2010 (originally the 15th Feb). Apparently, the closure of the Deeping is to enable a series of “road improvements”, including a programme to replace the Victoria Circus roundabout with a traffic light junction. The closure of the Deeping [...]

Users of the A127 ‘Arterial Road’ into Southend take note… The SPECS Average Speed Camera network is now live (April 2009). As locals will know, the speed for the stretch of the dual carriageway approaching Southend recently dropped from 70mph down to 50mph, with average speed cameras in place to enforce this limit. Essential safety [...]