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I think Thursday is a busier traffic day than Friday, here in Los Angeles. There is a term that traffic reporters use in Los Angeles - "Friday Light" traffic.
by JaggerFoo 9y ago
I think Thursday is a busier traffic day than Friday, here in Los Angeles. There is a term that traffic reporters use in Los Angeles - "Friday Light" traffic.
I wonder if "Friday Light" occurs in the other cities mentioned in the report.
That being said leaving at 7pm is a valid strategy any day of the week here in Los Angeles.
Great reporting.
- uiri 9y agoAnecdotally, I think that traffic from San Francisco to Mountain View on Friday mornings is lighter. I attributed it to people working from home on Fridays while going into the office the other 4 days of the week.
- madcaptenor 9y agoIn Atlanta we have light traffic on Friday mornings but heavy traffic on Friday evening. My theory is that morning traffic is almost entirely people going to work, of whom there are slightly fewer on Fridays, but evening traffic is both people coming home from work and people going out for fun. The extra fun trips on Friday evening more than make up for the people not working on Friday.
- 0xffff2 9y agoMy experience in the bay area has been that people overwhelmingly leave the area on the weekends. Any freeway that leads away from SF tends to be at a standstill by 3PM every Friday.
- aweiland 9y agoThat pattern happens in the DC area, especially in the summer.