Traffic #%&@

[Alex]

Revising a concept I came up with on a LJ post years ago, post a photo of a traffic jam, heavy traffic, or congestion that you saw, went through, or deal with on a regular basis. These are the times where roadding stinks...



The 405 south at the 10, always congested.

[Voyager]

Hmm, I had some of 80 in Sacramento, wish I hadn't deleted them.

[mapman]

I'll take your Southern California pic and raise you a Northern California one -- US 101 southbound just south of San Francisco International Airport.

[Chris]

The Netherlands is known for it's extreme traffic congestion. In fact, I think we rank near the top of the developed world when it comes to congestion. We live in a small country of 16.4 million people and nearly all freeways have only 4 lanes, or wider freeways have bottlenecks of 4 lanes. The highest AADT is 250,000 on the A16 freeway near Rotterdam.

I recently came stuck in this traffic jam on the A28 freeway near the city of Amersfoort. This wasn't even during rushhour, but around 11 am. The 4 mile stretch took me 30 minutes.


Freeway speeding


VMS displaying driving times for two routes to the city of Utrecht. During rushhour, the next 12 miles can take as long as 1 hour.


These "50" signs flash and warn you for an upcoming traffic jam (usually within the next half a mile)


Inching forward


Note the crazy amount of trucks. This freeway carries 110,000 vehicles per day and has only 4 lanes in total.

[Shadow Assassin]

This freeway carries 110,000 vehicles per day and has only 4 lanes in total.

How does 44,000+ vpd sound on a two lane road of dubious condition?

No pics at the moment, unfortunately...

[ComputerGuy]

Ugh...that's a mess...

In WA, traffic is mostly in the Downtown Seattle-Bellevue area. Especially the 520 bridge...

For WA traffic, see: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic

[Alex]

Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C. in August 2005.

[vdeane]

This picture really focuses on the sign, but you can see all the traffic on ON 400 as it meets ON 401 at rush hour.  On a highway that is six lanes each direction, its bumper-to-bumper traffic moving very slowly.

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[Voyager]

Wow, I had no idea Washington D.C. had so many traffic problems.

[vdeane]

Yeah, DC is bad.  I remember when I was on a school trip there a few years ago.  We got to I-495 around 8:00 AM.  We ate breakfast at the Ronald Reagan building (the first time we got off the bus since a rest stop in Maryland) at 10:00 AM.

[Alex]

Typical back-up at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

[Voyager]

Which won't improve once the new bridge is finished. 

[Alex]

The big bridge near the other end of Interstate 80 (GWB) is no better!

[FLRoads]

Major traffic backup on I-75 in the Valdosta, Georgia area, taken March, 2003.

[Ian]

I have a few. The first is on the New Jersey Turnpike somewhere near Jackson.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/NewJerseyTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5295137931449893746

Mall traffic at the Crossgates Mall in Albany, NY.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/NewYorkTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5292756554971386930

A red light traffic jam on US 202 south/US 322 east in Chadds Ford, PA.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Iansignal/PennsylvaniaTrafficSignalsAndRoadSigns#5295141599365608610

i.c.

[Alex]

I see your NJ Turnpike and raise you a Garden State Parkway!

[Ian]

And now you know why I NEVER travel that highway 

[Chris]

Driscoll Bridge on the GSP is one of the widest freeways in the U.S. though. Over 20 lanes cross the river, 15 on the GSP, 6 lanes on the immediatly adjacent Edison Bridge and next is the 4 lane Victory Bridge. A total of 25 lanes within like a mile!

[Chris]

Hamburg traffic on A1 Autobahn: 2 lanes of stopped trucks:


More trucks than cars:

[agentsteel53]

that's crazy.  what if someone wants to exit the autobahn?  how do they get through the wall of trucks?

[Chris]

Uhm... they don't 

I've never seen anything like that before. There were roadworks, so it goes from 3 to 2 lanes. Automobile traffic flowed gently with 40 mph, but those trucks were totally stopped...

[Alex]

Wow, truckulas, truckulas, truckulas, that's a total nightmare!



My next entry, from just after sunset on the Capital Beltway in Maryland, 2005.

[ComputerGuy]

Ooh...does anyone have pics of traffic before and after the Obama inaguration?

[deathtopumpkins]

Dang... remind me to never drive on the Autobahn in heavy truck traffic. That looks like a nightmare.

[Alex]

Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C. in August 2005.

Tame compared to what it normally's like in the late afternoon/evening.

My next entry, from just after sunset on the Capital Beltway in Maryland, 2005.

And, BTW, it looks absolutely nothing like that nowadays...

That's tame? We were not moving. 

Took the new WWB last month, even took a video across the local lanes. Nice improvement.