But you could also just as easily be late while leaving at the same said time frame…
Been their, got that t-shirt many times… lol
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Results may vary, for sure!
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Sure, tried that. Then FDOT decided to survey the road causing two hour backups.
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I was going to reply with something similar. My daily commute is 38 miles one way, 31 miles of that is freeway. That drive on a Sunday morning will be under 50 minutes. Going home on a Wed evening will easily be 90 minutes or more. The fact that I regularly spend 1 hour to travel 20 miles on the freeway shows how poorly traffic moves. There are a lot of variables in planning travel times.
I would love to take public transportation to save gas money, but I just can’t spend that much time commuting. There’s a new rail line that recently opened. But by the time I drive to the station, ride a train, transfer to a bus, and walk a few blocks to work it would be something like 2hrs 20 minutes. That’s not acceptable either. So fighting traffic it is.
Why just sit there when you can be doing something? I mean I don’t know what your work circumstance is like, and if you are bound by a time clock or shift work I get that maybe you can’t start early. (I’m not even sure if you’re talking about working in this country or another one?) But isn’t there something you could do with that time?
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I thought google bought wayz. I use them for my 18 mile commute in LA. Problem is that when the fwy if clogged, it takes me to surface streets but underestimates the amount of time I have to spend behind each red traffic light. So, I end up aggravating myself even more to only save 2-3 minutes. So, for the most part, I take a deep breath and try to listen to something nice on the radio. If I am going to be real late, I just call work and put out some fires on the phone.
It’s ok to not be always doing something, in America or elsewhere
Yes, back in 2013, but Waze is still developed in Israel, where its original team continues to operate as a separate entity under Google, the acquisition was significant as it allowed Google to enhance its mapping services while keeping Waze’s innovative features.
- Monday . com
- Connecteam
And many more such apps.
On the rare occasions when my car’s SatNav system doesn’t recognize an address, I use Waze, and it always seems to work flawlessly.
When I first moved to the Boston area, I bought a Garmin unit. Back then, they were not as integrated with cell tower augmentation. First time I drove into Boston all confident with my nav system, it shut down when I was between tall buildings. Not just stopped updating, it actually removed the existing map display so I was completely blind.
Fast forward to today and the integration is phenomenal, especially with the car. Being able to press a button and speak requests that are immediately understood and acted on is amazing. Kids today have no idea what is was like back in the paper map days…how many arguments resulted from husband and wife trying to navigate with a paper map 
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+1
And, even when a paper map was sufficient for navigating highways, getting down to the granular level with local roads was usually not possible with a paper map–unless you were in possession of a town’s own map. When I was a kid, it was always my job to get out of the car when we found a firehouse, so that we could get accurate local directions.
Pre internet days, traveling with two dogs and a cat, triple aaa was worth every penny. Used their guide books to make reservations at motel that accepted pets. TripTik was great. The only fail was getting out of Greenville, NC, we got in fine!
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Back in the days of maps that were given-out gratis by the oil companies, one of them (Esso, IIRC) published an “upside down map” for the route from the Northeast to Florida. This was apparently for spatially-disoriented people who were unable to look at a “normal” road map and figure it out.
When my brother had a summer job as a toll collector on the NJ Turnpike, he was stationed at Exit 11, one of the major interchanges. Almost every day, he would encounter a driver who asked, “Which way is Florida?”. Not, “Which way to Turnpike South?”.
For the first few days, he would recite the directions through NJ, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, for the benefit of those who were setting-off on a 1,000 mile drive with no clue as to where they were going. After a few days, his standard line was…
Florida? Straight ahead… you can’t miss it!
I remember printng mapquest directions. It was great as long as you didn’t make a mistake. But, I would always study the map/area beforehand to be prepared.
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Yeah, I struggle with that. Even when I’m doing nothing, I’m doing 2 or 3 nothings at the same time. My wife used to joke that even when I was just reading the newspaper I had the TV going and a record on the turntable. It wasn’t until I left for college and had roommates that I stopped sleeping with the radio on.
But during the workday I can’t ever let go of the flat-rate mentality. If I’m at work, I had better be being productive.
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