Originally Posted by cyclezealot
Had a Doctors appointment in San Diego this morning..Rainy.Left at 6:10 am..Got there at 9:25...64 miles total distance...That is 19 miles an hour..Can we ride our bikes at that speed...I know rain and Californians..Does not mix..But I think they do better in Minnesota in a snow storm? 64 miles took1/3 tank of gas. Couple accidents...
Cars backed up so far..Can't see how ambulances could access the victims...W/o rain..Might have saved on hour? and wonder the cause of road rage...I felt a case of it coming on...At that rate, 8 hour work day...Take almost as long to commute over actual work..Where all those people going..Does not work normally start like 8:30 am..? 9 oclock and still looked like peak of traffic.
Traffic is one of the main reasons I moved out of Atlanta Georgia. When I lived there, my solution to traffic was to move near where I worked and sometimes that didn't even help. At one of my jobs I had to travel a paltry 8 miles
against traffic and it would frequently take over 40 minutes of stop and go bumper to bumper BS. And for some reason that defies science or logic the traffic would
always be worse driving home. I used to get so pissed I'd have to pull over and find a pub somewhere. Everyone new my at that neighborhood Applebee's. I think I drank enough in just one year to buy a Giant OCR1 composite. I'm being 100% sersious. I never adapted to that traffic. It never got any better. It just grated on my nerves, kind of like rap music.
Whenever I hear people here in Indianapolis complain about traffic I just snicker and say, "yeah, right. Don't get out much do you?" They just have no idea how bad it can be. Next month we'll have the Indianapolis 500, which will bring in approximately 400,000 people for a single day. The entire month will bring in numerous out of towners, yet we won't have the kind of traffic I experienced in Atlanta.