Interesting blog article. I've always found it strange that when school is out, traffic is like 30-50% better. This effect is the best I can think of, because

Interesting blog article. I've always found it strange that when school is out, traffic is like 30-50% better. This effect is the best I can think of, because I wouldn't think there's a lot of people directly impacted by the school schedule. Elementary, middle and high schools all start and end at different times, and there's people directly employed by all of those schools, and certainly some parents who pick up and drop their kids off, but still it doesn't seem like that many people compared to how much better the traffic gets. So maybe this article is right, you take a few people off the road and the merging madness, and everything becomes better.