Traffic's gotten worse in 18 years and it's marginal to begin with. It's a 2 lane road with hit/miss as to parked cars and how many. If I hit it at rush hour it's never been fun, and it inspired me to search out and find a much better set of side streets thru a convoluted neighborhood. The old way was straight, no turns for 2 miles, with maybe 1/3 of that occasionally stressful. The new way has one way going in, different coming home, thus I had to learn the route. Add's maybe 1/3 -1/2 mile.