Texas never really fully shut down except for a few weeks at the start of the pandemic, but a lot of office workers were or are working from home. I can definit

Texas never really fully shut down except for a few weeks at the start of the pandemic, but a lot of office workers were or are working from home. I can definitely see leisure trips contributing to some of the traffic patterns noted in this article. I think this impacts intercity travel as well. A trip from San Antonio to Austin on I-35 used to take around an hour in the early 2010s. Now, it's an hour and a half minimum, 2 hours if you're unlucky, even in the middle of a Friday afternoon back in March before vaccines were widely distributed beyond prioritized groups.