Reliable Source: WTOP top traffic guy doesn't just report on snarls -- he helps fix them

For WTOP traffic and weather director Jim Battagliese, just warning listeners to avoid traffic jams sometimes isn't enough. Every now and then, the radio reporter has to take it into his own hands.Earlier this month, Battagliese turned up at the site of a major snarl caused by a police crime scene on Connecticut Avenue in Washington's Van Ness neighborhood to give the lowdown ("on the eights," as listeners expect), and found police trying to redirect traffic while understaffed -- and so he pitch...