Hey, you think state employees in Columbia are eager to get away from work on a Friday afternoon? Try getting onto the Beltway around D.C. just before 4 p.m. on a Friday.
When we entered from I-95 coming up from S.C. it was fine, but as we approached the Potomac heading toward our destination in Maryland, it locked up. All six lanes. And we didn’t even get in the worst part. Half an hour later, and I think we would still have been there this morning.
Maybe my libertarian friends have a point. Maybe the federal gummint is too big. Just a tad, mind you…
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Ah, DC traffic. Not knowing any better, I left Alexandria VA for Adelphi MD on the day before Thanksgiving the first year I lived there and arrived six hours later. I could have made it all the way from South Carolina in the same time on a different day.
I worked in D.C. this week and stayed a couple blocks from the White House. My morning “commute” was a three minute walk. Heard stories from some of my co-workers that their daily commute was 1.5 hours each way. That is lunacy.
Don’t want “big” government? Let’s get them out of the road building business. That way, we could be trying to negotiate all the traffic on 2 lane rural roads instead of interstates and thruways. What fun!
Been there, done that, more times than I’ve wanted.
So how come there’s such heavy traffic on Atlanta’s Perimeter? Not the federal gummint….CNN? The Weather Channel?
How about poor urban planning!
The only way to deal with Beltway traffic is to go around it; take I-81 northbound to I-270, then south on I-270. Of course, this doesn’t work at rush hour. You’re just stuck, no matter how you go.