It's A Traffic Jam Here Always During Rush Hours!

Traffic can get hectic when my hubby drives to and from work, certain hours of the day when everyone leaves for work at the same time and comes home around the same time. When the President and his motorcade is out and about DC, roads are blocked off so that can cause traffic jams too. I always tell him to take the metro as even though lots more people are catching the train nowadays, he gets into work faster that way.

Hi trinidadvelasco! Traffic can be very irritating indeed. Here in our local area, traffic is really slow and almost not moving usually after school and office hours. So, I do avoid going out or traveling on those rush hours. It can be distressing especially when one is in a hurry. Take care and have a great day! lovelots..faith210

Sounds almost like here in the Seattle area. A lot of times if we ever have to be around Church before 6 p.m. during the week it is almost impossible to get there without it taking at least 30 mins. Especially during the holiday months for sure. They have been working on the roads by our church for months now so sometimes it is interesting. And if you are not going that direction there are some areas that might take you 30 mins. normally that take you way over an hr. during the rush hour times, so I can definately relate for sure, and like you wish there was something more that could be done about it as well.

Ya it irritates too much in such situations, the roads of my city are also not well developed and also not broad though its a big city, but it is not very much developed, so it happens most of the times here too....and then the political rallies, sometimes religious....such things spoil the situation to the worst, once i was caught in the ladies market....u know how ladies go mad for shopping...and it was festival time, Diwali the biggest festival in India, and at the same time there was a rally of shikhs(a religion in India)going from the road at front...oh God...i wished that i cut a new road from somewhere or that there should be a flyover...as i was getting late to reach home...children waiting for me....terrible..

Where I live traffic is never a problem the roads around me are mailnly all just 2 lane with your ocasional passing lane up a long hill. But I also just live about an hour and a half from the city and had to travel in to the city very often last year to visit my ailing mother in the hospital. And my sister and I depending on the day of the week it was had to plan accordingly for traffic, we liked to be there at the hospital at certain time in the morning and when mom was in ICU they had set visiting times where as you got to visit for 2 hours then sit for 2 hours and visit again so with a drive like what we had to get there we liked to be there on time. But there were some days where traffic gets to jumbled and heavy and on any given day there could be an accident that would cause traffic to back up maily because of everyone tryign to get where they are goina nd in such a hurry and weaving and cutting, accidents are bound to happen. But I find it very very very irriatating driving in the city coming from a small town, I would hate to live only 10 miles from my job but have to leave an hour early just to make it there where as here if you love 10 mile from somewhere you can get there in 10 minutes or less depending on how fast you drive. Here is a small example my aunt who was also going in to visit my mother one day left her apartment at the same time I left my house to go to the hospital her apartment is a total of 18 miles away from the hospital and just on the very outskirts of the city, I live 63 miles from the hospital. We arrived at the hospital minutes apart, and I beat her there. My travel time is about 1 hour 15 minutes on average. so she had sat in traffic basicly for 45 mintues to an hour.

hi trinidadvelasco on my way to the office at chennai (india)everyday we have to do many magics to reach my office on time with my bike. I have trace out single cycle cap to penetrate my bike to the traffic. I have to play many ticks to come forward among from the ocean of traveling materials (Car,Bus,Truck,auto,tricycle,bicycle,human,bulls and etc). Now it is getting cleared by providing many bridges on the city by the government. But the numbers of vehicles being increased day by day what to do invent the way to fly with car like in the Hollywood movies.

I work from home now so I do not have to deal with the traffic jams anymore. I used to though. I always tried to leave a few minutes early to try to avoid them.

When I lived up north the traffic was horrible and you never knew when you would get stuck beind...something. Sometimes you never knew what the problem was. It used to take me half an hour to get to work and an hour to get home...and I never could figure out why. But, now I live in Florida...in the country...near a teeny, tiny town where there is very little traffic on the roads. We joke whenever there are more than four cars on the road at one time that it's total gridlock!