Traffic

[Smithy]

Ever been caught up in traffic on the roads, what is the longest you have waited in traffic?

The most I have waited in traffic on the roads was 3 hours with a big car crash up ahead which took awhile for the emergency services to clear.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Yes I have been in traffic many times, Atlanta has always had lots of traffic and has even more now.

 

[Nancy Hart]

The worst was when I got caught out when a home football game was ending. It happened twice. Forgot to check the calendar. They make several of the roads here one way out of town temporarily. I had to drive several miles out of town and head back towards town through the back roads to get home. Not to mention getting lost while doing it.

 

[Krystal]

Yes! And I hate it! It seems we always have road construction going on all over the place, especially on the interstate. People do not slow down when approaching construction areas, and then there always seems to be an accident. Traffic will be backed up for hours and then when traffic starts to move again, irate people get in a hurry and become careless again.

 

[Don Alaska]

When I commuted, I was stuck a number of times due to accidents on two lane bridges that had both lanes blocked and no way around. The traffic isn't bad here, but the weather is. When I lived on either of the coasts in the U.S., I used to say that the traffic jams on the East coast would sometimes sit still for hours, while the traffic jams on the West coast were a bit like NASCAR and travelled bumper-to-bumper at 80 mph. In LA if anyone touched a brake pedal there would be a 60-car pile-up. When I lived in Georgia and we had to drive through Atlanta, my wife hated to drive in traffic, so she was supposed to drive from the south until; the last rest stop before Atlanta. She missed the forgot to get off at the last rest stop most of the times and usually ended up driving through Atlanta. We had a stand shift vehicle at the time, so the left leg was cramping by the time she got through the city.

 

[Nancy Hart]

The bypass around town here is 4 lane with quite a wide median strip of grass, some places over 100 feet wide. In the past when you would get stuck because of an accident, folks with larger clearance would drive across the median strip where it was flat enough, and go back another way. I did it one time. Now they have put a fence on the median strip, but only where it is flat enough to cross. It must have cost a lot. Seems it would be cheaper just to repair the grass occasionally than upkeep the fence. The work of Control Freaks, imo.

 

[Don Alaska]

The bypass around town here is 4 lane with quite a wide median strip of grass, some places over 100 feet wide. In the past when you would get stuck because of an accident, folks with larger clearance would drive across the median strip where it was flat enough, and go back another way. I did it one time. Now they have put a fence on the median strip, but only where it is flat enough to cross. It must have cost a lot. Seems it would be cheaper just to repair the grass occasionally than upkeep the fence. The work of Control Freaks, imo.

People here treat roundabouts in somewhat the same fashion as most of us have high-clearance, 4-wheel drive trucks.