For example, New Year's Eve, at about 9:00 PM.
Not sure if this is actually true, but I would guess during the Super Bowl.
After Katrina.
Why would a greenie not love Katrina, and all natural disasters? As these return things to their "natural" state and remove "scars" like buildings, especially schools and hospitals.
After all, you have yours. OTHERS must do without. Which is what environmentalism, and all other forms of selfishness, are all about. OTHERS not having for your benefit.
bahaha
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2013, 05:05:23 PM
For example, New Year's Eve, at about 9:00 PM.
Not sure if this is actually true, but I would guess during the Super Bowl.
I would imagine the first one would be the exact opposite as people are heading out for NYE between 9:00 and 12:00. The 2nd is probably true everywhere except the city that's actually holding the Super Bowl.
What about Christmas and Thanksgiving?
Quote from: UptownRoadGeek on November 10, 2013, 08:58:06 PM
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2013, 05:05:23 PM
For example, New Year's Eve, at about 9:00 PM.
Not sure if this is actually true, but I would guess during the Super Bowl.
I would imagine the first one would be the exact opposite as people are heading out for NYE between 9:00 and 12:00. The 2nd is probably true everywhere except the city that's actually holding the Super Bowl.
There is very little traffic. However, after midnight, there are LOTS of drunk drivers.
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2013, 09:03:01 PM
There is very little traffic. However, after midnight, there are LOTS of drunk drivers.
Not in my city.
Traffic is a b**** until a little after midnight. Then starts up again between 3:00 and 4:00 in the am as people start going home.
When propane plants explode. (That's the 401.)
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fd%2Fdf%2FEvacuated_Highway_401_Color.jpg%2F800px-Evacuated_Highway_401_Color.jpg&hash=c287c40134693a6aab2659a8ba1e84e0fc5a1aac)
Also, in the Manila area, during Holy Week (Maundy Thursday − Palm Sunday), when a lot of people go to the provinces to spend time with family.
This is what EDSA looks like during the trip home for Holy Week:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww8.gmanews.tv%2Fwebpics%2Fv3%2F2012%2F04%2F640_ZZZ_041012_1.jpg&hash=39411328fc54030fcc6a401a0036b39558181a42)
This is what it looks like during Holy Week itself:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg21.imageshack.us%2Fimg21%2F1153%2Fimg1218e.jpg&hash=53cf3d2eed0de0aa4289c2134feef96238949d73)
Christmas Eve after 7 pm, New Year's Eve between 11:30 and 1:00. During the epic blizzard in these parts last February. 4th of July just after sunset. Any non-holiday weekend Sunday night between 11 PM and 5 AM. Sunday mornings between 4 and 7.
Streets are empty in Green Bay during a Packer game.
There is actually a LOT of traffic on the holidays themselves. People are often traveling to their destinations for parties/gatherings and such. The NJ Turnpike for example will have long delays, especially in the area that is getting widened. Used to be long delays at Interchange 1 until the plaza was rebuilt. And along I-95 in Delaware & Maryland, you can go quite a distance without getting up to the speed limit.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on November 10, 2013, 11:31:08 PM
Any non-holiday weekend Sunday night between 11 PM and 5 AM. Sunday mornings between 4 and 7.
While it may differ based on where you are located: In general, weeknights between 11pm and 4am to 5am are very light. On holiday weekends, traffic seems to remain heavy till about 1am, and it will quiet down until about 6am.
Along the Jersey Shore, it used to be so dead from October - April the traffic lights were turned off. While still somewhat true along LBI, most shore towns now keep their traffic lights in operation year-round.
Quote from: SP Cook on November 10, 2013, 05:35:02 PM
Why would a greenie not love Katrina, and all natural disasters? As these return things to their "natural" state and remove "scars" like buildings, especially schools and hospitals.
After all, you have yours. OTHERS must do without. Which is what environmentalism, and all other forms of selfishness, are all about. OTHERS not having for your benefit.
Quote from: NE2 on November 10, 2013, 05:41:46 PM
bahaha
Get a room, you two...we have a hotel thread.
The roads are quiet in most Southern towns on a Sunday morning.
Summer in much of Florida. The old folks head north and the roads get much more pleasant. This is especially apparent in snowbird heavy parts of Florida like Fort Myers and is not seen as much in Orlando where the traffic is tourists and not snowbirds.
The entire week between Christmas and New Year's is a week of minimal traffic here in the DC area. This year the lighter traffic will probably begin December 23 since Christmas is a Wednesday. Lots of people take the whole week off and it's possible to hit 75 mph or more on roads where you're normally doing 20 mph during rush hour.
The DC area is also probably a bit unique nationally in that traffic today (Veterans Day) is extremely light since the US government is closed for the holiday. It really makes you realize just how much of the local workforce is employed by the government, given that most of the private sector does not observe today as a holiday (many businesses observe the day after Thanksgiving instead, which I think is a trade most people are quite happy to make!). My wife drove to work today instead of taking the subway; she left here at 8:10 and she says she clocked in at the office at 8:38.
Quote from: realjd on November 11, 2013, 09:01:32 AM
Summer in much of Florida. The old folks head north and the roads get much more pleasant. This is especially apparent in snowbird heavy parts of Florida like Fort Myers and is not seen as much in Orlando where the traffic is tourists and not snowbirds.
A similar situation in Phoenix. It's November, and right now, all the snowbirds are returning for the winter. During the summer when they are gone, there will be a lot less traffic on the roads.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 11, 2013, 09:37:41 AM
The entire week between Christmas and New Year's is a week of minimal traffic here in the DC area. This year the lighter traffic will probably begin December 23 since Christmas is a Wednesday. Lots of people take the whole week off and it's possible to hit 75 mph or more on roads where you're normally doing 20 mph during rush hour.
The DC area is also probably a bit unique nationally in that traffic today (Veterans Day) is extremely light since the US government is closed for the holiday. It really makes you realize just how much of the local workforce is employed by the government, given that most of the private sector does not observe today as a holiday (many businesses observe the day after Thanksgiving instead, which I think is a trade most people are quite happy to make!). My wife drove to work today instead of taking the subway; she left here at 8:10 and she says she clocked in at the office at 8:38.
Was traffic affected by the shutdown last month?
Quote from: realjd on November 11, 2013, 09:01:25 PM
Was traffic affected by the shutdown last month?
I don't commute into the city, but I've heard traffic was still bad. I wonder whether more people drove with the government closed.
From recent experience: Lake George and other tourist spots in Adirondack Park on a weekend in November.
Likewise, the southern end of the Garden State Parkway in winter. I'm sure the same is true of Cape Cod but I haven't ever been there off season personally.
Day after Christmas, Sunday evenings from about 8pm till 4am Monday morning, New Years Day
Quote from: formulanone on November 11, 2013, 06:43:15 AM
Quote from: SP Cook on November 10, 2013, 05:35:02 PM
Why would a greenie not love Katrina, and all natural disasters? As these return things to their "natural" state and remove "scars" like buildings, especially schools and hospitals.
After all, you have yours. OTHERS must do without. Which is what environmentalism, and all other forms of selfishness, are all about. OTHERS not having for your benefit.
Quote from: NE2 on November 10, 2013, 05:41:46 PM
bahaha
Get a room, you two...we have a hotel thread.
The roads are quiet in most Southern towns on a Sunday morning.
Until about 10:30, when people start headng for church.
Quote from: sammi on November 10, 2013, 10:22:13 PM
When propane plants explode. (That's the 401.)
That pic eerily reminds me of an afternoon shot of the Southeast Expressway (I-93) in Boston the day after the Marathon bombings a FB friend of mine posted. It was probably the first time since the Expressway's initial opening that there was so little traffic at that time of day.
Quote from: PHLBOS on November 12, 2013, 08:50:10 AM
Quote from: sammi on November 10, 2013, 10:22:13 PM
When propane plants explode. (That's the 401.)
That pic eerily reminds me of an afternoon shot of the Southeast Expressway (I-93) in Boston the day after the Marathon bombings a FB friend of mine posted. It was probably the first time since the Expressway's initial opening that there was so little traffic at that time of day.
There were some remarkable pictures from the Friday when the shelter in place order was enacted. It looked like that "Life After People" TV show.
The Virginia Beach oceanfront was pretty dead in late October last time I went, as were the Outer Banks around Thanksgiving in years past.
Christmas morning...a few years ago I drove to my girlfriend's house in 17 minutes a distance that would normally take me 25 in light traffic...I was basically the only one on the road.
Quote from: 1 on November 10, 2013, 05:05:23 PM
For example, New Year's Eve, at about 9:00 PM.
Not sure if this is actually true, but I would guess during the Super Bowl.
New Year's Eve is pretty glorious for longer-distance travel. On 31-December-2011, I left Detroit at 7 PM for Cincinnati, getting into town at 11:15 PM to still make my New Year's party before the Midnight hour.
There were
numerous stretches on I-75 in western Ohio (normally a very busy stretch of highway) where I saw NO cars in either direction for multiple miles at a time. I've done that drive in the 2-5 AM window a few times before, and it was still not even
close to as deserted.
I drove into DC on MLK Day in 2004 and encountered little traffic that day for a very busy city.
Drove from home to Texarkana on New Year's Day a few years ago, which included going through Nashville, Memphis and Little Rock, and it was pretty lightly traveled that day as well.
Did Norfolk to Atlantic City on Christmas Eve more than 20 years ago and don't remember a lot of traffic on US 13, I-295, the NJ Turnpike and US 40. The next day it was Atlantic City to Cumberland, Md. by way of Washington DC, and I seem to recall very little traffic on Christmas Day.
Quote from: ET21 on November 11, 2013, 11:27:34 PM
Day after Christmas . . .
Not so where I live. That's the day everybody hits the mall to return all the stuff that didn't fit or that they didn't want. Lots of folks also want to hit the after-Christmas sales to spend the gift cards from grandpa and grandma.
Quote from: ET21 on November 11, 2013, 11:27:34 PM
Day after Christmas
How often have you been around Woodfield or Oakbrook Court on that day? It makes rush hour around those areas look nice.
For the last several years I've been on the road on Christmas Day, and there is a lower volume of traffic, but what is especially noticeable is the almost total absence of truck traffic. On a road like I-65 that is usually choked by truck traffic, it is great to drive on Christmas.
During the soccer World Cup final match.
Sunday morning. I have driven a 10 lanes superhighway at that time and I felt like driving in North Korea.
I'm not really sure I'd count "Sunday" as a time of year.
Quote from: empirestate on November 16, 2013, 01:28:03 AM
I'm not really sure I'd count "Sunday" as a time of year.
Not to be a nuisance, but do we also need seventeen folks to mention Christmas and Thanksgiving?
What amuses me on the day after Thanksgiving is the number of people who think it's a holiday and then get ticketed for disregarding rush hour parking rules and the like. DC makes a staggering sum of ticket money that day.
Quote from: PHLBOS on November 12, 2013, 08:50:10 AM
Quote from: sammi on November 10, 2013, 10:22:13 PM
When propane plants explode. (That's the 401.)
That pic eerily reminds me of an afternoon shot of the Southeast Expressway (I-93) in Boston the day after the Marathon bombings a FB friend of mine posted. It was probably the first time since the Expressway's initial opening that there was so little traffic at that time of day.
There were some really eerie pictures of the empty MassPike that day too. Then again I've also seen pictures of the MassPike empty for a Presidential motorcade, for Superstorm Sandy, etc.
Living right on the edge of Back Bay at the time though, what the roads looked like were the least of my worries then!
During the 2004 Democratic National Convention, all of Greater Boston was strongly urged to go on vacation. It was great. The roads were clear sailing at all hours.
Traffic here greatly drops off after the 4th of July, and picks up again with the dreaded back-to-school period in late August.
Christmas Eve is deader than Christmas Day. On Christmas, people travel to family gatherings far more, and by the night of Christmas Eve nothing's open anyway.
Thanksgiving's a really busy travel day in my experience.
Quote from: deathtopumpkins on November 20, 2013, 06:00:47 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on November 12, 2013, 08:50:10 AM
Quote from: sammi on November 10, 2013, 10:22:13 PM
When propane plants explode. (That's the 401.)
That pic eerily reminds me of an afternoon shot of the Southeast Expressway (I-93) in Boston the day after the Marathon bombings a FB friend of mine posted. It was probably the first time since the Expressway's initial opening that there was so little traffic at that time of day.
There were some really eerie pictures of the empty MassPike that day too. Then again I've also seen pictures of the MassPike empty for a Presidential motorcade, for Superstorm Sandy, etc.
Living right on the edge of Back Bay at the time though, what the roads looked like were the least of my worries then!
I took the MassPike the day after Irene. Pretty much deserted, and a free ride. I bet the SE Expwy. was similarly dead.
I can say that the majority of the traffic-free pictures I've posted on AARoads for Los Angeles (which has a very busy, well-traveled freeway network) were taken on a Saturday or Sunday, with Sunday morning being optimal. There's never a guaranteed good day to drive I-5/Santa Ana Fwy, mind you.
During the summer, when (IMO) lighting is best, I am relegated to the weekend days when driving in urban areas with rush hours. During the holiday season, when lighting is worst (except maybe when traveling due north), traffic is lower, but days are short and shadowing is prevalent. People have asked me over the years whether I took pictures during the week, and the answer is usually "nope."
Regards,
Andy
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 20, 2013, 07:01:06 PM
Thanksgiving's a really busy travel day in my experience.
I've also found Easter evening to be really busy. I usually go out to my parents/other relatives for dinner during the day, and almost every year there is a significant backup trying to get back into the city (Pittsburgh) at the tunnels. I've always chalked it up to being because it's still a big enough holiday for family gatherings that people want to go places, but not big enough (and no associated "official" holiday) that people have Monday off.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 19, 2013, 08:59:17 PM
What amuses me on the day after Thanksgiving is the number of people who think it's a holiday and then get ticketed for disregarding rush hour parking rules and the like. DC makes a staggering sum of ticket money that day.
I was going to refute this, but just learned that the day after Thanksgiving is not considered a federal holiday. It is recognized as a legal holiday in many states, such as Nevada (where it is officially called "Family Day"), but not all.
There's really no name for the holiday in Kentucky, unless the state considers Thanksgiving to be two days. Language always says "...plus an extra day" for for the two-day Christmas and New Years holidays, but not Thanksgiving.
Relatively certain Friday is not an official (i.e. parking) holiday in Seattle. Bus service is reduced slightly, but not all the way down to a weekend schedule (although that means nothing, that's also how they operate on MLK and Veteran's Day I think).
Looking at the INDOT website, I just found out that Indiana's state government celebrates "Lincoln's Birthday" on the day after Thanksgiving and "Washington's Birthday" on Christmas Eve. Next year Washington's Birthday is the day after Christmas. No holiday for President's Day. Here's the details: http://www.in.gov/spd/2555.htm
Quote from: tdindy88 on November 26, 2013, 11:28:04 AM
Looking at the INDOT website, I just found out that Indiana's state government celebrates "Lincoln's Birthday" on the day after Thanksgiving and "Washington's Birthday" on Christmas Eve. Next year Washington's Birthday is the day after Christmas. No holiday for President's Day. Here's the details: http://www.in.gov/spd/2555.htm
That has to be an error. Thanks, Obama!
http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title1/ar1/ch9.html
Quote from: NE2 on November 26, 2013, 06:56:25 PM
That has to be an error. Thanks, Obama!
http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title1/ar1/ch9.html
the shift in days is appallingly consistent with the use of an Islamic calendar.
holy shit all aboard the FEMA cattle train to Benghazi!