Traffic, better or worse?

Dariusb · #1 Posted **Jun 13, 2021, 11:54 PM**

Over the last 5-10 years has traffic in your area gotten better or worse?

photoLith · #2 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 12:41 AM**

Traffic has gotten better and worse.

chris08876 · #3 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 1:02 AM**

Worse!

Steely Dan · #4 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 1:45 AM**

One of the best bumper stickers i've ever seen:

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Stop complaining about traffic.

You ARE traffic!

JDRCRASH · #5 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 1:45 AM**

By almost every statistical category, yes. Traffic is now even on the weekends. In a sense it's worse than the weekdays, actually, because at least with the latter you know which direction traffic is going. But on the weekends it's busy on BOTH sides of the freeways. Additionally, the freeways (decades ago) had taken traffic away from the main blvds, but now they too are clogged with cars and trucks. And with GPS it's spread into residential neighborhoods that were once quiet.

Dariusb · #6 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 5:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

By almost every statistical category, yes. Traffic is now even on the weekends. In a sense it's worse than the weekdays, actually, because at least with the latter you know which direction traffic is going. But on the weekends it's busy on BOTH sides of the freeways. Additionally, the freeways (decades ago) had taken traffic away from the main blvds, but now they too are clogged with cars and trucks. And with GPS it's spread into residential neighborhoods that were once quiet.

I've heard about how bad traffic is out where you are in the SGV. Have family out there.

uaarkson · #7 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 4:10 PM**

I'm from Flint, which hasn't had real traffic in at least 35 years.

UrbanImpact · #8 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 5:17 PM**

Traffic is everyday, at least on I-95 here in South Florida. It has worsened year by year, and the new pay express lanes they are building aren't helping.

DZH22 · #9 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 5:50 PM**

Boston area had the worst traffic in the country before Covid, and it's getting back to those levels.

chris08876 · #10 Posted **Jun 14, 2021, 6:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

By almost every statistical category, yes. Traffic is now even on the weekends. In a sense it's worse than the weekdays, actually, because at least with the latter you know which direction traffic is going. But on the weekends it's busy on BOTH sides of the freeways. Additionally, the freeways (decades ago) had taken traffic away from the main blvds, but now they too are clogged with cars and trucks. And with GPS it's spread into residential neighborhoods that were once quiet.

Yes for the weekend. Ever since the traffic equalizer (covid) has been reduced, weekend traffic is back to its annoyance. SARS-COV-2 was a very good traffic engineer. And SARS-COV-2 never went to college either. It was born in a cave and became an adult in a lab and ended up being the greatest traffic engineer out there, much better than folks with PhD's that take 10 years to build a road or to instill traffic mitigation measures. Made our roads efficient again.

2020 was the best year for driving. Open highways, lack of minivans, massive reduction of cars with baby on board stickers. It was a good time... a simpler time. When 5 pm rush hour was similar to 2 am on a country road.

Camelback · #11 Posted **Jun 15, 2021, 2:33 PM**

Traffic was better in 2020 for some reason.

Antares41 · #12 Posted **Jun 15, 2021, 7:09 PM**

Traffic was down in 2020 yet traffic death were up like 8% according to the National Safety Council . Can't quite understand that increase. Was it just speeding and/or reckless driving?

urban_encounter · #13 Posted **Jun 16, 2021, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

One of the best bumper stickers i've ever seen:

mrnyc · #14 Posted **Jun 16, 2021, 4:25 AM**

a bazillion, bazillion times better since they made the busy street in front of our place into a bus lane street.

Pedestrian · #15 Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 6:06 PM**

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Toll bridge traffic nears 90% of pre-COVID levels
JUNE 17, 2021

Bay Area drivers got a big jump on this week's official start of California’s post-pandemic era by returning in large numbers this spring to the region’s toll bridges and other freeways(link is external).

Average weekday traffic in the toll-paying direction at the region’s seven state-owned toll bridges rose by more than 7% from early March to early June, representing some 34,000 additional trips each weekday — or enough to fill a freeway lane operating at 35 mph for about 17 hours straight. As a consequence, congestion-related delays have returned as a recurring daily headache in many of the Bay Area’s traditional traffic hot spots.

Overall, daily toll bridge traffic roughly has doubled from the COVID-era lows registered in early April 2020 and now averages 85% of the levels recorded in mid-June of 2019. Traffic across the Antioch Bridge, the least-traveled of the Bay Area's state-owned toll bridges, already has returned to pre-pandemic levels and daily traffic volumes now routinely approach or even top 90% of pre-COVID numbers at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez and Richmond-San Rafael bridges.

The San Mateo-Hayward and Dumbarton bridges, by contrast, continue to register the largest declines in daily traffic on a percentage basis. While westbound traffic across both spans connecting Alameda and San Mateo counties has risen by nearly a third over the past year, the number of weekday crossings at the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge is still about 25% below June 2019 levels and weekday volumes at the Dumbarton Bridge average close to 35% below those seen two years ago.

https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/...e-covid-levels