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Marbourg has been observing and reporting on traffic on WTOP radio since November 1979. He flew as an observer in the Cessna airplane leased by WTOP.

He spent about 11,000 hours watching our region grow beyond the Beltway at a time when rush hour delays formed in only one direction and lasted for less than two hours.

Bob started traffic reporting as vacation fill-in for Walt Starling on WASH-FM and was the original anchor and operations manager for Metro Traffic Control when it expanded from Baltimore into Washington, its second Market.

Today he reports from the studios of WTOP in Northwest Washington.

Bob views traffic reporting as an essential public service, upon which thousands of people will make decisions, a serious responsibility.

Today our greatest resource is the hundreds of listeners who call on cell phones as they live the traffic and share their information, thus making a difference by being part of the process.

Bob accepts the role of the travelers advocate and serves as ombudsman without portfolio, but with an awful lot of maps.

 

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