5-1-1

5-1-1 is a special telephone number in the United States and some parts of Canada. It is made to be easy to remember. People can dial the number on a landline phone or on a mobile phone to get information about traffic and travel.

History

In March 2001, there were more than three hundred phone numbers about traffic and travel. This was confusing to many people, because so many numbers existed, or were there, for the same thing. To fix this, the United States Department of Transportation (called the USDOT) asked the Federal Communications Commission (called the FCC) for a special N11 code. On July 21, 2000, the FCC made 5-1-1 the national telephone number for travel information.^[1]

References

↑ "511 Guidelines Version 3.0" (PDF). Sep 2005. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2007-04-07.

Other websites

5-1-1 numbers for specific places

Arizona
San Francisco Bay Area
San Diego Archived 2008-02-17 at the Wayback Machine
Florida
Florida - Tampa Bay Area Archived 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
Florida - Southwest Florida Area Archived 2008-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
Georgia
Kansas Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
Kentucky Archived 2012-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
North Carolina Archived 2006-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
North Dakota Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
Northern New England – Vermont
Nevada Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
Northern New England – New Hampshire Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
Northern New England – Maine^{[permanent dead link]}
Oregon
Southwest Ohio - Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky
South Dakota Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Tennessee
Virginia

[1] "511 Guidelines Version 3.0" (PDF). Sep 2005. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2007-04-07.

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