He was considered the “dean” of Houston’s traffic reporters, spending nearly 40 years telling people how to get around big-city gridlock. Marty Ambrose spent most of his traffic reporting career with Houston’s Metro Traffic on a number of different stations. He retired, but missed the mic so much that he came back with non-commercial KUHF-FM (88.7) in 2008. Ambrose died after a battle with ALS (known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was 69. You can watch an interview with Ambrose here … Paul Johnson was the longtime KNBC-TV traffic reporter in Los Angeles, but he had his roots in radio. He was at one time a traffic reporter heard on SoCal stations including KIIS-FM (102.7) in the late 1960’s, KPOL, KFAC and KZLA in the 1970’s and with Metro Traffic in the 1980’s. A former PD of WJR-FM in Detroit, according to LARadio.com, Johnson succumbed to a brain tumor. He was 75.