Here in SoCal I am witnessing the New Normal. The freeways are still empty, there is NO rush hour traffic in the morning, a little in the afternoon, but it is like Driving in the 70’s all over again. What took 1 1/2 hours 6 months ago, now takes 25 minutes to drive. I do NOT see it coming back in the foreseeable future, California is DEAD, most just don’t know it yet
“California is DEAD, most just don’t know it yet”
This is why each state should have a law requiring a waiting period to vote when you move into the state. You can vote in the national election, but you have to wait 6 years before voting in state and local elections.
Same here in the Bay Area
Traffic disappeared
Except gas is about a zillion times more expensive. BTW. its $1.97 here in Tucson! Saw a $1.93 spot too. Not too shabby even for our Guv.
There is a factor that you have not factored in re the lack of traffic.
There are tons of people in California working from their homes.
Also, many if not most California college students are at home taking classes online.
Basically no K-12 students are in classes except expensive private ones. They are home schooling. So no traffic for/from school kids..
Cal State closed its dorms and classrooms this September, and every class is online. One of our gk’s is a student at a Cal State, and he had his parents take his vehicle home. He is living in a home at the college town with 3 friends). They only used their vehicles to get to classes. Now, they have no need for a vehicle.
My wife and I are in our 80’s and are basically shutin due the CV19 restrictions. I have filled my Ridgeline’s gas tank once since the shutdown and still have over 3/4 of a tank of gas.
We have filled my wife’s Lexus twice with 1/2 tanks of gas each time since March. Her one+ year old battery died. AAA replaced it and said we needed to drive her Lexus and my Ridgeline a couple of times a week and not just a 2 mile round trip to pickup a grocery order.
3 out of 4 grocery orders are home delivered to us in 2-4 hours. Our local Walmart will start 2 hour delivery next week.
A DIL is running her dance classes for adults online and she has partnered with two other ladies with a online clothing store.
A family across the street has 5 adult kids, 3 are working at home, and two are online college kids.
We “go to our church” online.
A good friend of my wife’s bridge group and MahJong are on line twice a month.
A friend has a niece moving into our city soon. The niece’s husband is a tech weenie for a major corporation and hates the Sillycon valley area. He had a job offer in Austin. His company here wanted him to stay with them, and they will let him work anywhere. So they picked our town since his wife’s aunt lives here. He is getting some type of financial help from his current current company for their move.
The biggest vehicle traffic we have in our city are delivery trucks bringing in food and other home supplies.
Next are the guys doing construction. Seems like about every other home is having some major work done. Fortunately we had our work done before the CV 19 hit.
I don’t know about that. I recently drove from Las Vegas to Ventura. Once out of Barstow on the 15 it was nothing but stop and go until I hit the 134 cutoff. Then clear sailing to the 101 and home. A trip that usually takes 4 1/2 hours took over 5 1/2 hours.