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slipgate
On Fridays in DC Metro, the morning traffic rush blends into the afternoon traffic rush.

We went out at noon for lunch and 66 is already a parking lot. I'm going to try to get out of here at 3:45 but it will probably take me 1 1/2 hours to get home (26 miles).
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  • spurgemastur
    Around here it starts at 4:45 and is over by 6. During those hours it takes 20 minutes to get from one end of town to the other (five miles), rather than the usual 14. [:D]

    Now let the WSU Cougars have a home football game and that's a whole different ball of wax. That'll make a 90-minute traffic jam on both ends of the game and getting across town might take 35 minutes.

    The situation has degenerated since 5 years ago when rush hour only lasted about 40 minutes. I was feeling annoyed by that until I visited my family in a 2Million+ metro area and remembered what most folks put up with. [xx(]
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  • Odawgp
    dont have much of one, only 8000 people live round here. and thats spread out over about 120 miles, but if 10 cars on the highway is a rush hour start 5pm over at 5:30pm
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  • iluvguns
    Just another reason to leave that cess pool and move to some place else. Along with the high cost of day care. [:D] Rush hour around here is when a farmer moves a combine from one field to another and blocks traffic.
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  • Sig220_Ruger77
    Usually 4-6pm is pretty hectic. Luckily I have to be to work by 4 so I just barely miss most of the traffic, but on long nights at work I catch the morning rush(7-8am) which isn't fun either. Of course my definiton of traffic is nowhere near what you guys in the really large cities deal with. I wouldn't be able to take that everyday.

    Jon
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  • Queen of Swords
    Any time a slow-moving tractor gets in front of me.
    Seriously, it's a blue-collar town. Rush hour is between 7 and 8AM, and between 4 and 5PM.
    Still only takes me about 10 minutes max to get to work/home.
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  • hisbigbootygirl
    quote:Originally posted by rcrxs old lady
    Any time a slow-moving tractor gets in front of me.
    Seriously, it's a blue-collar town. Rush hour is between 7 and 8AM, and between 4 and 5PM.
    Still only takes me about 10 minutes max to get to work/home.


    similar for me since i work in the same small community that i live in. ... i feel for u slipgate.
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  • BarkingDog
    in los angeles rush hour is from 4am - 11pm for as far as the eye can see
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  • sierrasam
    Rush hour starts with Exit Stage Left,right after Zeppelin hour of Physical Graffiti. I work at home.
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  • dcon12
    At five on payday. I live 100 yards from the office. Don
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  • Sig220_Ruger77
    quote:Any time a slow-moving tractor gets in front of me.
    Seriously, it's a blue-collar town. Rush hour is between 7 and 8AM, and between 4 and 5PM.
    Still only takes me about 10 minutes max to get to work/home.

    I always get a kick out of it when people from larger cities get behind a tractor on a backroad around here. They are still moving faster then they would in a traffic jam in a larger city yet they find it neccessary to cuss and beep their horn. I just sit back and laugh and think to myself, "that tractor ain't going any faster there son."[:D]

    Jon
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  • jimbowby
    [8D]--My only commute traffic, that I worry about, is North Sacramento (hiwy 80) from 12 noon till 1800 hours and I allow my travel time, to the Sierras, to skirt around that horrible time (even on weekends)--

    --When we go to San Francisco Bi-weekly) we take the Ferry, over the water and have NO traffic--


    --[:D][:D]--JIMBO
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  • dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by jimbowby
    --When we go to San Francisco Bi-weekly) we take the Ferry fairy,

    Is that what you meant? Don
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  • agman1999
    I second the tractor thing.

    I just have 7 miles of 2 lane blacktop, and about 25 miles of open four lane to drive.
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  • Colt Super
    Rush hour here is when the three guys at the mill get off work, and lasts from 3:01PDWT to 3:01:20PDWT.

    Sometimes, it's a little longer, if one of the guys gets stopped by the traffic light.

    But, damn, I sure miss all the fun I used to have in East LA.

    Doug
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  • FrancF
    Here in my little section of CA
    AM-6:30-9:00
    PM-3:00-6:00

    Friday-pm noon on, lot of folks doing the 4-10's.
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  • catpealer111
    Any time two horse drawn buggies are approaching each other on the small dirt path that makes up the only road in Minot.
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  • bpost
    How much of a rush can three four-wheelers, two cars and four pick up trucks cause in one 24 hour period? [:D]
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  • William81
    I live in the sticks...the closest thing to a ruch hour around here is whem my wife, sons and I all are trying to get out the door first thing in the morning [8D]
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  • kimi
    About two seconds into REM.
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  • tomahawk
    i'm never in a hurry,if someone tries to rush me i give them my best dumb look. no rush hour[:D]
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  • Jacob2008
    quote:Originally posted by tomahawk
    i'm never in a hurry,if someone tries to rush me i give them my best dumb look. no rush hour[:D]


    He isnt kidding either, heck, he wont even use his BLINKERS
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  • fishkiller41
    Any of y'all ever driven the "I95 death-stretch" between the " Indiantown/Okeechobee" and "Boynton beach" exits? [xx(]


    Jeff
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  • pickenup
    My biggest rush around here, is after about the third cup of coffee.
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  • bobski
    the hour after i die.
    eveyones gonna rush in and grab as many guns they can out of my safe and sell them on gunbroker for a penny auction.
    if i could i'd roll over in my grave.[:o)]
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  • givette
    Retired.
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