check_route

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Check current conditions along a major California highway corridor. The flagship trip-check tool: give it a start and end place and it returns everything active along that stretch right now - CHP incidents, lane closures physically in place, chain controls, and wildfires within ~10 miles - ordered by miles from the start, plus a summary. ALWAYS pass from_coords and to_coords ("lat,lon") when you know where the places are - for landmarks, small towns, or anything not a major city they are required for a good answer. Coordinates do two things: they let unlisted places resolve to the nearest corridor (e.g. "Alice's Restaurant" snaps to I-280 on the Peninsula), and they CLIP the route to the span actually being driven, so a trip to a mid-corridor destination doesn't report events beyond it. Corridors covered: I-80 Sacramento-Reno, US-50 to South Lake Tahoe, I-5, US-101, SR-17, SR-99, SR-1, I-15 to Vegas, Bay Area freeways, Tahoe-area routes. This is NOT a general router: if nothing matches (even with coordinates), the response lists the covered corridors; fall back to the filtered tools with center= for anything else. Freshness: CHP incidents refresh about once a minute; closures, chain controls, and fires are on a 5-minute cache. Current conditions only - this cannot forecast tomorrow's weather or closures.