learnedax ([personal profile] learnedax) wrote2004-07-26 09:06 am

Run DNC Run

Average commute time: 23 minutes.
This morning's commute time: 20 minutes.

I win.

[identity profile] rickthefightguy.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Explain? Did you do something different, or was all the whining about the DNC just pointless and everything is fine?

[identity profile] sjo.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
My suspicion is that most of the offices are closed, thus cutting the number of commuters bigtime.

[identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not sure it's fine everywhere, but I always take non-major routes to work, so the constrictions on major highways don't particularly affect me.
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[personal profile] jducoeur 2004-07-27 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all feedback loops. So many people stayed off the roads due to the predictions of gloom and doom (due to telecommuting, or simply going on vacation) that it more than compensated for the messed-up situation.

Basically, they did a good enough job of scaring the hell out of everyone that pretty much everyone is working around the problem in some fashion. Which of course means that there's no problem...

[identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
My commute was excately the same. I left about 20 minutes early, just in case, and was 20 minutes early to work.

[identity profile] benndragon.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
My commute wasn't changed at all. The number of cars on the road didn't seem terribly different, possibly a few less cars. But my commute is extremely short (~5min), so I wasn't terribly surprised at the lack of change despite [livejournal.com profile] metahacker's prophesies of doom and gloom.

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I stand by my prophecies. It's all I have.

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'all might be interested in the "Grade the Commute" poll on the Globe's front page...
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[personal profile] tpau 2004-07-26 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah see, i will be on 128, 3a and 93 in the sity later tonight, so it will suck deep ass for me...
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[identity profile] mr-teem.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Or you actually won't be on 93 if I understand the road closure map correctly.

Listening to the traffic dudes on the way in around 9ish this morning the rush seems to have evaporated. There can't simply be that much excess capacity in the system so there must be fewer commuters.

[identity profile] lensedqso.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate you :)

Actually it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but still worse than usual (orange->green->green if anyone cares). Of course, normal is like 1.5 hours :(