The insanity of 5 o'clock traffic!

Personally, this is one of the main reasons why I do not miss working Day shift. Even though I miss being able to spend more time with my husband, I do not miss having to fight the traffic every night by getting off work at 4:30 and getting home most nights no earlier than 6. Here in Seattle the traffic is insane most the time and watching a person drive is unreal.

I do not contribute to the evening traffic but I try as much as I can to avoid it. Out of bad luck in the past, I leave for home from work at four and find myself stuck in the traffic, and guess what? I get home after eight. It is very annoying watching crazy drivers who want to prove to be in a hurry.

Hi ..... I am not so familiar with 5 o'clock traffic as i live in a town and there is not so rush in the morning. Usually, i drive my bike through a side road to my station in the morning everyday and i never get catch on traffic. have a nice time.

Ahhhhh - I hate traffic period - at any ol' time! Where I live there are a few freeways that are always jam packed whatever time you go on it (except maybe during wee hours - the time we don't have to be on it). I am seeing more and more how angry people get while driving - it's rather scary. My husband has to deal with it as he has to work a bit far . . . he tries to leave for work early in order to beat the rush - and then he tries to leave work a bit late to avoid the evening rush (but also in an effort to get some overtime - ha ha). I luckily do not have to deal with traffic most days - I'm a stay-at-home mom and try to schedule things accordingly so I don't have to deal with crazy traffic. Believe me, I can get pretty angry about things too, but not to the point where I would ever endanger anyone - especially the kids in my car!!!!!

Yeah, the traffic is insane, especially where I live, because I am on the main road, to a place where a lot of people need to travel to get home in various points in the city. So there is a lot of insane traffic by about five o clock right in the evening. I'm long since at home and resting, but the traffic is rather insane at that time. Of course it is insane at two points, at three when the high school lets out and all of the teenage drivers start heading off to wherever. And then after five where many businesses let out. There are times where you can see traffic about as far as the eye can see. And perhaps even further than the eye can really see more often than not. Amazing how this works out. The very worst time to be trapped out on the main road.

I hear ya. Rush hour traffic is beyond bonkers. I hate driving in it, and try to avoid it as much as possible. Sometimes it worse then before 5' o clock. Though it gets pretty bad around 5 o' clock. I try to avoid driving during that time as much as possible, which I have said. I bet bus drivers hate it the most.

Well, I would love to be stuck in 5 o clock traffic because that would mean I'm employed. But anyway, sounds like a alot of crazy, impatient people trying to get home. But it is nice, sometimes I'll get a call from Express, saying they need me ands the schedule is from 9:30 to 6, missing all that.

Most of the time, I will find this type of traffic news from the newspaper or hear people complain about it. However I am quite lucky to live in a small country that I can go everywhere on foot. Luckily the house we live in is very near my work as well, so I can avoid the traffic issue and the hassle. Deep down, I really appreciate what I have.......

If I can avoid the rush hour, I do it absolutly. The only thing that makes me go somewhere at that time willl be a doctors appointment or something equally important. Even then, I try to get things done at other times of the day. In my city, the rush "hour" are really 2 hours. When you get caught there, you can be in the same block for ages. Some young people do the most stupid things , like driving over what is not the street for cars. I do my supermarket at what I call "ol´ ladies´ hour". I go at 11 AM, after mylotting in the morning, buy what I need and come back quickly to make lunch

Yup! I don't like to drive from 4 to 6 pm coz of the traffic. I don't like to sit in the traffic for like an hour or two.