Sunrise commuting.
Wonder of I85
revealed. So ugly!
Making my commute for the 1st time after a week off.
School is out and the sun is up.
No school buses in the way or taking up valuable freeway space.
And plenty of sunlight so I can see the wonder that is I85.
It might be an engineering marvel that allows so many people to drive so many cars to so many jobs to earn so little money to make payments on such expensive cars.
But it sure is ugly.
How bad is I85?
Here is an excerpt from a recent GRIDLOCK GUY column from the Atlanta Journal Constitution –
I85 in Gwinnett [was] plain cursed [last week]
By Doug Turnbull, For the AJC
Have you ever had one of those days? That’s rhetorical, because everyone has. Nothing seems to go right and the problems happen in succession. Then those trials cause more issues. Before you know it, you’re saddled with an inconceivable and seemingly insurmountable entanglement of logistical (and probably emotional) baggage. Come sit on your therapist’s couch next to I-85 in Gwinnett County.
Bad traffic is not a new story on the Atlanta roads, but seeing so many outlier, unusual problems in the same place is both serendipitous and unsettling. Sometimes this stuff just happens and sometimes recurring conditions cause the problems. Either way, I-85 commuters, this wasn’t your week. Drive carefully and better luck next time.
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