Job update. Well, OK, traffic update

[teddywolf]

For all of the congratulations last week, I thank you all.

I've been ramping up my first week at work - no really solid leads through work yet (drat!). The worst headache has been the traffic.

Monday it was fine.
Tuesday it was a nightmare - suffice it to say that it took over an hour for me to get to work on a route that should take 15 minutes.
Wednesday I decided to avoid Tuesday's traffic jams and encountered no fewer than three other traffic jams.
Thursday I was late getting out of the house and was to take the T. I called a cab - and the road on the usual back route to Oak Grove was blocked off for construction.
Today I took what I decided will be my regular route and had to stop for ambulances. It seems somebody had some sort of seizure while pulling into an intersection. Otherwise it wasn't so bad.

Did I mention the traffic has been bad this week? It's the worst traffic week I've ever encountered.

Comments

[jungle-goddess.livejournal.com]

And we wonder why people snap.

[ckd]

The prevalence of water-soluble driving skills combined with a couple of rainy days hasn't helped, I'm sure.

[neuroptik.livejournal.com]

It's the same on the West and East coasts - as soon as water lands on the roads, people forget how to drive. =(

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

<snort> Whaddaymean, West and East coasts? That's true nationworldwide.

[neuroptik.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it is, but I was speaking strictly from personal experience.

Yep, traffic's been bad lately

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

Traffic's been pretty awful for me, too, the past two weeks, and I don't have options for "alternate routes"-- to get from north-of-Boston to south-of-Boston, I-93 is pretty much the only plausible route.

With no traffic, my drive takes slightly more than a half hour. On typical mornings, it actually takes 45-50 minutes. Lately it's been taking 55-65 minutes. Yesterday, it took 80 minutes. Oi.

Oddly, the afternoon commute (which is quicker in general, because there's no bottleneck in the northbound tunnel and because I usually manage to leave before rush hour is truly underway) is still taking the usual 35-40 minutes.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Ick! Sorry you've been hitting that, I hope it hasn't put you in a bad position at work. I imagine it'll take you a couple weeks to work out the best route & timing. (When I was working in Woburn, I found that I got there at the same time even if I left earlier - ironically, if I left earlier, I hit more traffic.)