This morning the road I normally ride had traffic backed up on it for 5 miles. I was amazed as I shot by everyone (cautiously of course, a frustrated driver is a dangerous driver I figure). Luckily there is a 1 mile section with a frontage road that I was able to use to get a break from shooting down the curb to car corridor. It was really interesting. One of the first days where I was pretty sure I beat everyones time getting into work. One of my coworkers said the freeway was shutdown unexpectadly and that caused the backup. It took him an extra hour to get to work! That is how long my whole trip took me. Anyway, I felt good passing three busses from the route I normally ride and they weren't even broken down this time! Tonight it will probably be different. Hopefully traffic is light because of Halloween. I was making record time until the traffic backup and I had to drop down to 16 mph so as to not catch a side mirror unawares.