Universally hated: the traffic jam.
Sometimes, it’s expected like rush hour when the sheer volume of vehicles overwhelms our transportation infrastructure. At other times it’s road work or a traffic accident. For the most part, though, as Pogo would say, we’ve met the enemy and it’s us.
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While terribly misnamed (it didn’t really say how to avoid getting stuck in traffic), the video makes some interesting points.
We expect traffic to back up if there’s been a collision, but the backup lasts long after the vehicles have been moved to the side of the road because of the cursed rubbernecker who seems to feel obligated to slow to a crawl so he or she can fully examine the accident scene. Traffic clear ahead, we grit our teeth while waiting for their cars to move (there’s always more than one of these guys).
I’ve even seen rubbernecking when there’s road construction. You’re not a supervisor analyzing the job being done, so move along, please.
I utilize a Garmin GPS that has traffic services. When programming a route, it will avoid heavily congested roads to save time and displays an icon indicating the state of traffic (green = clear, yellow = congested, red = traffic jam). It’s been very, very helpful and routing me away from known traffic jams.
As bad a traffic jams come, nobody has experienced one like this as people returning from vacation tried to return home to Beijing.
So what’s your worst traffic jam story?
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