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[Post New]02/12/2010 17:11
Anonymous
Traffic failure
[Post New]02/12/2010 17:13
Anonymous
I survived traffic-pocalypse 2010?
[Post New]02/12/2010 17:16
Anonymous
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021200897.html?hpid=topnews

That about sums up the day...1 fatality although could've happened on any day.
[Post New]02/12/2010 17:18
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I survived traffic-pocalypse 2010?


Apparently at least 1 person didn't, and still rolling dice for many on the way home.
[Post New]02/12/2010 22:12
Anonymous
Getting home took 2.5 hours instead of half an hour. john berry is on my shit list.
[Post New]02/12/2010 23:05
Anonymous
let me get this straight. Those that had to work this week either from home or go in think that it made perfect sense for people to spend up to 7 hours in traffic (a colleague who live in Vienna did this today bc the metro wasn't running so she ha to drive - good thing she had a car) b/c they had to work? is that the correct assessment?

I was all for working today - looking forward to it in fact. That was before I spent tax payer dollars in traffic. does that make you feel better? My kids spent 3.5 hours in the car today and I live in bethesda. this is sick. tell me to stay home and take a day of leave, but I don't have that luxury either. The feds staying home made going in possible for thousands of others.
[Post New]02/12/2010 23:15
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:let me get this straight. Those that had to work this week either from home or go in think that it made perfect sense for people to spend up to 7 hours in traffic (a colleague who live in Vienna did this today bc the metro wasn't running so she ha to drive - good thing she had a car) b/c they had to work? is that the correct assessment?


I do think it made perfect sense for people to have to be stuck in traffic going in to work today. It was unfortunate, I'm sorry it was a long trip for y'all, but the trip was long because you do not live close to your job.

Bad weather happens, and bad traffic happens. People who live far from where they work choose to live there for many reasons, among them the great schools, I'm sure, lack of crime, access to larger houses. They made that choice to live far from their place of employment as we all make choices. Others of us made different choices to live very close to where we work. We deal with the schools that people look down on. But in bad weather and when the traffic is backed up, we don't have nearly as far to travel, and that makess sense too. The closer you are to your work, the less time it'll take to get there even in bad weather.

There are tradeoffs in life, and choosing not to live near your job is the tradeoff you made. So occasionally there's bad weather and it sucks to get in to work. You aren't entitled to an easy commute, even in bad weather.
[Post New]02/13/2010 10:40
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:let me get this straight. Those that had to work this week either from home or go in think that it made perfect sense for people to spend up to 7 hours in traffic (a colleague who live in Vienna did this today bc the metro wasn't running so she ha to drive - good thing she had a car) b/c they had to work? is that the correct assessment?


I do think it made perfect sense for people to have to be stuck in traffic going in to work today. It was unfortunate, I'm sorry it was a long trip for y'all, but the trip was long because you do not live close to your job.

Bad weather happens, and bad traffic happens. People who live far from where they work choose to live there for many reasons, among them the great schools, I'm sure, lack of crime, access to larger houses. They made that choice to live far from their place of employment as we all make choices. Others of us made different choices to live very close to where we work. We deal with the schools that people look down on. But in bad weather and when the traffic is backed up, we don't have nearly as far to travel, and that makess sense too. The closer you are to your work, the less time it'll take to get there even in bad weather.

There are tradeoffs in life, and choosing not to live near your job is the tradeoff you made. So occasionally there's bad weather and it sucks to get in to work. You aren't entitled to an easy commute, even in bad weather.[/quote

I have always lived walking distance to my office. I now wah, but I think your post is idiotic. I have several friends that have changed jobs frequently over the last several years and the aren't going to uproot their kids everytimr. My dh is an independent consultant- we live in the city and his current project on Penn ave ended and the new one is out in silver spring- we sure aren't moving there-ESP since this will be only about 1. Yr before the next project. I feel bad for those stuck all day- fortunately
y dh had the option of coming home to work when he saw how bad metro was.
[Post New]02/13/2010 20:42
Anonymous
OMG I am so pissed now. I live 5 miles from work you asshole. so in addition to be being angry that some of us work for the govt and had 4 days off, you are also angry that some of us live in nice neighborhoods with good school districts? how pissed are you going to be when you find out you can have all of that and live miles from work! and it took 2.5 hours to get home. I couldn't take metro b/c I have two very young kids who are in daycare at my work and the streets/sidewalks were impassable b/c of snow. screw you.
[Post New]02/13/2010 20:56
Anonymous
My husband spent two hours and forty-five minutes getting from his office in Georgetown to downtown (where we live to be closer to my job) last night. This was not an issue of people not living close enough to their jobs; this was an issue of the area not being prepared for a work-day's worth of traffic.
[Post New]02/14/2010 07:29
Anonymous
People have been dragging their asses into work all week, and staying overnight if necessary to be sure to be able to get their jobs done. Grocery stores, Target, gas station workers, drugstores, have been open after the initial storm was over. No one gives them the day off just because conditions are not easy for the commute. Government workers got NUMEROUS days off work to be able to deal with the snow and the commute, but at some point, they too need to drag their assess in to work. 2 and half hours to get into work, sounds about right to me, several days after two major blizzard, That's why you had a 2 hour delay.
[Post New]02/14/2010 07:30
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:My husband spent two hours and forty-five minutes getting from his office in Georgetown to downtown (where we live to be closer to my job) last night. This was not an issue of people not living close enough to their jobs; this was an issue of the area not being prepared for a work-day's worth of traffic.


For people who lived in Vienna and needed 7 hours to get to and from work, it was about not living close to their jobs.
[Post New]02/14/2010 09:09
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:16:52 is downplaying things. In MoCo, we were suggested to park in the parking garages and not on the streets to alleviate cleanup crews....took me an hour exactly just to exit the parking garage....lololololol Then what was 4 lanes is now down to 2. The furthest most left lane, which is generally a turn lane was half full of snow, as was the furthest most right lane half full of snow for those wanting to turn right. 4 lanes down to 2, with people trying to turn left and right from those 2 lanes! I think I cycled through a single traffic light at least double digits on US29. Shoot me now.


Just relaying my experience taking the bus and walking downtown. Nowhere do I suggest that what was true for me was true for everyone. I had a relatively easy commute to work, and I was surprised at how clear it was. Would I have loved an extra day off? No question. But I can see how OPM made the decision to open.
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