So, really quickly here as I eat my sandwich, I have to say that today's commute wasn't so bad. However, it did include an odd traffic slowdown that just does not make sense to me.
Normally if I hit a traffic jam there's usually a good (or at the very least acceptable) reason for it: accident, merging, end of HOV lane, etc. Not today, today after a merge where Route 50 drops from 3 lanes to 2 I found myself confused. You see, after I merged the pace of traffic started to pick up for a bit, then we went to a dead stop for NO reason. Usually when I'm held up in traffic at this point in my trip it's due to an accident, or a cop sitting on the side of the road, or a back up from where 295 drops commuters onto 50/the approach to the D.C. line. But none of this was the reason today, as by the time I hit the 295 point traffic was moving well again.
From what I can tell there just was NO reason for this random and painfully long stoppage. I would like to blame it on the weather/rain, which normally has drivers acting like panicky law students waiting in-line at Kinkos during a writing competition, but for the most part that surprisingly did not affect my commute. So I sat there on Route 50 and wasted 15 good minutes of time, causing me to get into work 5 minutes late.
You know what didn't happen when I was taking the MARC train? The arrival of my person at the office later than 8:50am. *sigh*
This morning's commute (I can't really post last night's as too many stops were made due to errands):
Start time: 7:25 am
End time: 9:05am
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