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What times of day are you driving? I can tell you that when I drive 101 south, I get stuck at the construction chokepoint at the East Palo Alto IKEA (between Un
by hyperrail 8y ago
What times of day are you driving? I can tell you that when I drive 101 south, I get stuck at the construction chokepoint at the East Palo Alto IKEA (between University and Embarcadero), and that adds at least several minutes of slow-and-go driving compared to before the construction started.
The only way I'm driving fast down 101 south is if I'm there at 11 am. Which counts as morning, but is also unreasonably late even for salaried workers in a relaxed company.
- mc32 8y agoI quit a job which took me from SF to the penn on 101. There were slowdowns at the 280/101, airport, 92, 84, university, oregon, etc... sure off peak is different, but that’s nin commute hours. The traffic going north has similar slowdowns. Now, there are a few exceptions here and there like if you’re going from Hillsborough to some parts of sandhill and such, but the longer SF-valley and Valley-SF is clogged during commute hours.
- rconti 8y agoI don't blame you, that's a really long drive to do twice a day, any way you slice it. I was trying to come up with analogous commutes in other areas, but even Everett to Seattle is "only" 34 miles. I wouldn't recommend a >40mi car commute in any populated area, frankly. If you're not coming from a busy area or going to a busy area, you're at least traversing a busy area, and in this case you're talking about all 3. I'm not sure what you're expecting out of that kind of distance. Even at 2am you're probably talking at least 45 minutes by the time you get out of the city and get off the freeway into your destination. When I think "bad traffic", I think of low average speeds, not just long commutes with a few bottlenecks.
- rconti 8y ago7:40 in that stretch, which is the only place that slows down. Hopefully they'll be done with Willow and the bike bridge soon.