Probably an Obama voter/supporter too! LOL
Talking of bumper to bumper traffic.....abd stupidity......
I live in Norfolk, VA. We are dependent upon our bridges and tunnels to get around the area. Basically, the area is divided into two regions, the Peninsula (Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg) and the Southside (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake). There are two major arteries across the water between the two regions,(Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel HRBT and Monitor Merrimac Bridge Tunnel MMBT) and another crossing called the James River Bridge (JRB).
Last weekend, VDOT decided to have some work performed over the weekend. They closed the southbound lanes on both the HRBT and the JRB. This left one route open.
And it only takes one idiot. Someone had a wreck inside the MMBT. One person who tweeted the local news stated that a normal 45 minute drive took them 7 hours.
Now VDOT heavily advertised the closings, and people didn’t stay home. They just HAD to go.
After the Northridge Earthquake, self and thousands of others who lived on the "wrong side of the collapsed Newhall Pass overpass" literally had to leave home at 3:30 am to get to work by 8 -- for months....then we'd get to do it all over again at 5pm on the flipside.
Needless to say, there were stretches where you'd expect hours of merging delays, and periodically some bunghole would attempt 'line cutting'.
I (and hundreds of others, I'm sure) learned the 'swerve technique' that would do just what's in that clip to the perp.