weather: Sunny
traffic: light
time: 920-1000
Well, why the traffic builds up on certain days vs others is beyond me. My guess was that possibly on sunny days, mom's, teens on break from school, and other non-working types were jumping on the road to head out to the beach or some such, but alas no.
I've known about traffic antipatterns for a while and practice them every once in a while, but this deals more with the traffic as it is currently. I'm more interested as to why the traffic is heavy on certain days vs other days.
I've never been the agressive try-to-get-10-cars ahead type, as I generally let my 'chunked'[1] driving skills handle the traffic as best as it can and I usually move through large parts of traffic completely oblivious to the traffic around me. I usually find I can usually plan out what I intend to do at work or enjoy music while I'm dinking along at 20 mph. Which is also why I tend not to do the traffic antipatterns as much either, I have better things to think about than trying to deal with the traffic around me. There have been several times when I've made the 75 mile drive to my parents place with no traffic and not remembered any part of the drive at all.. which is great!
This, of course, only works to an extent while commuting as eventually I have to merge over or let people in or do something else that requires me focusing on driving again. Still, what's more interesting to me is why? Why was there less traffic today, a very nice day, than last Wednesday? Why are there more cars in the parking lot? Why, apparently, are there more cars on the road? I suppose I have to see if there are other events or something else going on.. but that's gunna take more effort.
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