>Gotcha. Here in Atlanta, there is a stretch of I-85 South which starts bottlenecking between 6:00AM-6:15AM and continues until 8:30AM-9:00AM. The same basic stretch going north starts bottlenecking between 2:00PM-300:PM and continues till 6:45PM-7:15PM. "Bottlenecking" here is slowing to a crawl and even stopping often for 2-5 miles across 4-6 lanes of traffic. Not a lot of fun. :-)

I get that regularly too (OK, so it's only 2 lanes of traffic, not 6, but the width don't make much difference when there's over 2 miles of stationary vehicles in front). I sit in the car thinking of my first 10 years of working, all of the jobs were within 3 miles of my home & I walked every day - often beating people in cars when the traffic was bad.