I have noticed a significant increase in my commuting time in the last few months.
These people must be driving somewhere at 6:30 in the morning, and I don’t think it is the unemployment office.
Ever think of another possibility for what you are observing? Maybe a parallel artery is undergoing construction and therefore causes traffic that normally took that route to spill over onto your route?
Please reread postings on this thread.
There are no blocked parallel arteries on my commute. Traffic has increased dramatically in the last few months. We need to face the truth. For whatever reason the economy is apparently taking a turn for the better, at least where I live. It may just be that people have given up on being unemployed and are taking lower paying jobs or it may be that this is the year the trillion dollar stimulus package is being used.
I anticipate that the economy is going to improve between now and November, and that is a fact we are going to have to be prepared to deal with.
Pretending or even hoping that things are getting worse going into this election is not a viable strategy. Unemployment will likely be below 8% by the time of the election. I don’t know why, but it will be.