Comments on: Traffic Jam

By: Julie Leto

Julie Leto — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:36:09 +0000

Leslie in GA, I lived in Atlanta (Vinings, within the perimeter) back in the 90s and it was awful then…I can only imagine now! HUGS.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:35:16 +0000

Janelle, Being another SoCal gal I can relate to your “out-of-the-way house” that turned into something entirely different many years later. I live in the East San Fernando Valley, &, before retiring, lived less than 10 mi. from work (Fairfax District, right past West Hollywood). I worked/lived in the same locations for 25 years; yet, when I retired, it took 55 mins. (normal traffic), rather than the 25 mins. it had taken when I started. As much as congestion on freeways drives people nuts, I’d rather my company be near one than be forced onto busy urban streets, where construction is always “the name of the game”. Now, it’s great to do errands first thing in the AM & pick up my daughter from school before rush hour. No commute is about the best aspect of retirement, though, having a “real life” follows closely behind.

Patricia A.

By: Leslie in GA

Leslie in GA — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:42:43 +0000

I live in Atlanta. Actually, a little north of it (about 20 minutes) but still close enough to be affected by the smog and traffic congestion. There could be an accident on I-75, I-85, I-575, I-20, I-985 or I-675 and it will STILL affect you, no matter where you are in the Metro area. If there IS an accident, you may as well just turn the car off and take a nap. (True story…there was an accident the other morning really early; shut down the interstate for about 2-3 hours; cops had to go car to car and wake drivers up.) During sporting events or things going on at the WCC, you simply C-A-N-N-O-T move. Thankfully, I live five minutes from where I work. The only real traffic I endure is the school zone…the intermediate school, middle school and high school are all in the same location.

In my next life, I’m going to build a house in the middle of 1,000 acres and shop online. I’ll grow my own food and never leave my property again.

By: ev

ev — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:06:38 +0000

Kate- Here in Troy, NY right near the MA border, we get a lot of Massholes!! I am glad to let you know that they name has not died out.

Some of our worst traffic here in Troy (just outside of the Capitol, Albany) is Rt 7 going/coming from Vt, esp during leaf peep season and skiing. I just want a big tank to push them all off the road and out of my way!! going 3 miles to the store can be forever. I go the opposite way and head to the next county instead.:wallbash:

We have road construction season, but since I work 7am-4pm, I am out before traffic gets bad. Any work on the main road won’t start until the majority of the traffic has passed. the ones I feel sorry for are the ones who live in Saratoga County- they get a big back up merging from the various freeways.

Troy is a small city, growing more each year, but still very much an old city. I love it here. Much better than living in Syrause where I spent most of my life. I can head to VT or MA just for the day to shop or go to a concert and NYC is only 3 hours away. I make DH drive there. I hate it. I will drive in Boston or DC- they don’t bother me. I grew up with traffic circle hell!!!

By: Kate Scott

Kate Scott — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:21:45 +0000

Janelle, I live outside of Boston. Oy. I grew up in a little town in NH on the Mass border, and we always called Massachusetts drivers Massholes, because they were jerks while driving.

Lord, I didn’t know the half of it until I moved closer to Boston. I used to drive 2 hours to work everyday, and I didn’t even work IN Boston! I have since switched jobs and now the commute is only 45 minutes, but so many drivers really are just jerks, certain towns have issues actually paving their roads, and others are under construction for 5 years.

Ideally, I’d love to write full time and not have to commute farther than from my bed to the couch, lol. Or even just a 5 minute drive, and live someplace rural.

NH is looking pretty darn good again… :-P

By: jeannie

jeannie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:12:18 +0000

Well I wanted to avoid the traffic jam so I raced right over to amazon.com

and pre-ordered all the plotmonkey upcoming books.

By: katie

katie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:40:28 +0000

:thumbsup2:Janelle: Yes, he did. Good thing hubby was gone last night.

I just got the funniest email. I wrote an email about my granola bars. One of them was in the package opened and looked like it had a bite out of it. The rep assured me that no one took a bite of my granola bar (how gross). I didn’t think they had, I just wanted to let them know it was a Quality Control issue they might want to look into!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:28:43 +0000

The town I live in has 5 Stop signs in total!

By: Jodie

Jodie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:12:04 +0000

Joye - up until about 5 years ago my parents lived in Gilbert. It’s amazing how Phoenix just keeps expanding. And you’re right, so few good roads to maneuver so many people.

And Janelle, when they were building the house next door to my mom’s, the carpenters dropped a 2″X4″ and it went through my mom’s window!! That’s how close the houses were! Now they’ve moved to the middle of nowhere, 1 1/2 hours SE of Tucson. And I mean NOWHERE! Free ranging cattle are the biggest traffic hurdles out there!

By: jeannie

jeannie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:06:22 +0000

Wow traffic seems to be everywhere these days.

I have a 15 minute commute to work so not too bad.

If you stay away from Providence and Boston, it’s

not fairly doable except at rush hours.

In Maine we are currently the other side of the boonies.

No traffic there. The only place I have ever seen a line is

at the ice cream stand. I can’t even imagine a 5 lane freeway.

Here it’s usually 3. Must be like constantly trying to get out of an

old drive-in movie theater. Have a nice day everybody.