But it’s Atlanta where the morning rush hour is from 6 am to noon and the evening rush hour is from noon until 10 pm.
“But it’s Atlanta where the morning rush hour is from 6 am to noon and the evening rush hour is from noon until 10 pm.”
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I do believe, Suh, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. (But not much.)
I relocated for work down here (Atlanta metro) from Ohio. Began my job and commuting in October 2015. There is a whale of an uptick in traffic loading mornings and evenings from that time to the present. Something is/has happened here.
I average 70-80 mph to work in the morning on I20 & I285; 55-65 most of the way home on surface streets ... until I get to Benz stadium.
I used to walk to work downtown. Now I commute against the traffic to the big tech company office in Smyrna. But yes, Atlanta and GA have many small, cheap things they could do to improve traffic time 20% for us. But they want the big multi-million dollar infrastructure project. And they will make us suffer till they get that big pot of money. I should talk. My consulting client contracted $100 million to the big tech company.
On a different note, I expressed pessimism that Trump’s tariffs and immigration would suppress the boom. I am a free trader. A capitalist. I here admit that
I was wrong.
The tariffs and immigration have not suppressed the boom.
True dat. I worked for four years in Atlanta - a 70 mile commute one way - that took about 75 minutes. Half the drive was spent trying to get outside the Perimeter. Ever try to navigate Grady Curve at 8 AM? There’s always at least one lane blocked, and a HERO unit and cops clogging things up because nobody knows how to MERGE at the ramps. There’s always at least one ignorant SOB who tries to force a merging car off to the shoulder, and another ignorant SOB coming off the ramp who wants to play a game of Chicken. Then factor in a secondary merge in interstate traffic and the sundry ignoramuses who do the same thing, and you’ve got six cars on the shoulder with their asses hanging out in the road. I’d rather panhandle on a deserted country road than deal with Atlanta traffic any more.